TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Harju, Jarkko
AU  - Jäger, Simon
AU  - Schoefer, Benjamin
        TI  - Voice at Work
        PY  - 2021/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14163
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14163
        AB  - We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job separations, and at most small positive effects on other measures of job quality (job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and capital intensity. A 2008 introduction of shop-floor representation had similarly limited effects. Interviews and surveys indicate that worker representation facilitates information sharing rather than boosting labor's power.
        KW  - industrial relations
KW  - corporate governance
KW  - codetermination
KW  - exit-voice theory
KW  - separations
KW  - job quality
        ER  -