Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation
基于27个欧盟国家的工作场所调查，研究发现员工代表制度的普及程度与劳资关系体制的集权程度和立法支持力度密切相关，行业利润对工会存在重要但对企业委员会不重要，且支持退出-发言模型。
Debates on the desirability of workplace employee representation are rarely evidence based. We use a workplace survey covering 27 EU countries to show that its incidence is strongly and independently correlated with the degree of centralization in a country’s industrial relations regime and the extent of legislative support. Industry profits are important in explaining trade union presence but are unimportant in the case of works councils. We find support for the exit-voice model, traditionally associated with Anglophone regimes, whereby worker representation is associated with poorer perceptions of the employment relations climate and with lower voluntary quit rates.