Robots, Digitalization, and Worker Voice

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio

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“…The first study shows that the presence of employee representation in an establishment is correlated with the adoption of more sophisticated and automation-resistant job designs (Belloc et al 2021). The second shows that codetermination is positively associated with take-up of advanced technologies, arguably because those technologies are complementary to workers' newly acquired sophisticated skills (Belloc, Burdín, and Landini 2022).…”

Section: F the Future Of Workmentioning

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Codetermination and Power in the Workplace

Jäger¹,

Noy²,

Schoefer³

2022

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How does codetermination-entitling workers to participate in firm governance, either through membership on company boards or the formation of works councils-affect worker welfare and corporate decision-making? We critically discuss the history and contemporary operation of European codetermination arrangements and review empirical evidence on their effects on firms and workers. Our review suggests that these arrangements are unlikely to significantly shift power in the workplace, but may mildly improve worker welfare and firm performance, in part by boosting information-sharing and cooperation and in part by slightly increasing worker influence.

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Section: F the Future Of Workmentioning

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Codetermination and Power in the Workplace

Jäger¹,

Noy²,

Schoefer³

2022

JLPE

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“…Kriechel et al., 2014; Stegmaier, 2012; Gerlach & Jirjahn, 2001; Zwick, 2005) as well as technology adoption (e.g. Genz et al., 2019; Belloc et al., 2022). In this article, we extend this knowledge by using a firm's level of technology (i.e.…”

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The relationship between works councils and firms’ further training provision in times of technological change

Lammers

Lukowski

Weis

2022

Brit J Industrial Rel

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Participating in further training is strategically important for employees to ensure their employability. Particularly for employees in low‐skilled jobs, works councils — firm‐level organizations that represent employees — constitute an important employee advocacy instrument in European countries, such as France and Germany. With comprehensive co‐determination rights, works councils can influence firms’ hiring policies, job design and career paths (e.g. promotions). Using German firm‐level data, we empirically investigate the influence of works councils on firms’ training provision for employees in firms below and above the industry level of technology. The results show that works councils have a positive effect on the percentage of employees in general, and of employees in low‐skilled jobs in particular, participating in training, but only for firms below the industry level of technology. These results show the importance of works councils in supporting training in such firms and enhancing the employment prospects of employees in low‐skilled jobs. In contrast, firms above the industry level of technology invest in training with or without a works council, indicating that the training interests of employers and employees are aligned.

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Advanced Digital Technologies in Unionized Firms

Berton,

Dughera,

Ricci

2024

Ital Econ J

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This work examines how workplace employee organizations causally affect the adoption of advanced digital technologies in Italy. It does so by using information from the survey “Rilevazione Imprese e Lavoro” conducted by the National Institute for Public Policy Analysis on a nationally representative sample of Italian firms in the non-agricultural private sector in 2018. It shows that workplace employee organizations increase the probability of advanced digitalization by around 15 percentage points per year, and the number of different technologies adopted by 0.41. The empirical strategy follows an IV approach that eliminates simultaneity bias and builds upon a lagged internal instrument combined with a NUTS-3 measure of altruism—namely, per capita blood donations. Results survive when cybersecurity is excluded from the analysis and prove robust when the internal instrument is left alone, combined with an index of tolerance or with propensity score matching.

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Robots, Digitalization, and Worker Voice

Cited by 4 publications

References 70 publications

Codetermination and Power in the Workplace

Codetermination and Power in the Workplace

The relationship between works councils and firms’ further training provision in times of technological change

Advanced Digital Technologies in Unionized Firms

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