The Economics of Codetermination

JOHN T. ADDISON is Hugh C. Lane Professor of Economic Theory at the University of South Carolina, USA, and is a research fellow at the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University and the University of Coimbra in Portugal.

Introduction Context: What is Codetermination? The Theory of Codetermination The Early Econometric Literature on Works Councils The Emergence of a More Positive View of Workplace Codetermination The Impact of Workplace of Codetermination Evaluation of Codetermination at the Enterprise Level European Rules for Informing and Consulting Workers and the European Dimension Codetermination in Retrospect and Prospect