Voice at Work

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Harju, Jarkko; Jager, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin
• 署名单位: Tampere University; Princeton University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20220451
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 271-309
• 关键词: human-resource management; employee representation; labor-market; FIRMS; unions; wages; PRODUCTIVITY; separations; INEQUALITY; governance

摘要

We estimate the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. We study the 1991 introduction of a right to worker representation on boards or advisory councils in Finnish firms with at least 150 employees, designed to facilitate workforce-management communication. Consistent with information-sharing theories, our difference-in-differences design reveals that worker voice raised labor productivity. In contrast to exit-voice theory, we find no effects on voluntary job separations. However, treated firms reduce involuntary separations (during our recessionary sample period). A 2008 introduction of shop-floor representation, another worker voice institution preexisting in our main firm sample, had more limited effects. (JEL E32, J24, J53, J63, M54)