online first of Socio-Economic Reviewjournal article: How national employment systems relate to employee involvementby Stefan Kirchner and Sven Hauff
2 December 2017
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Abstract
We investigate general claims that national institutional conditions relate to
employee involvement across countries. Using a decomposition analysis, we exam-
ine how much of the key domains of national employment systems contribute to dif-
ferences in employee involvement in Germany, the UK and Sweden. Drawing on the
2015 European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), our decomposition analysis
explains between 40% and 65% of the cross-national differences. These differences
stem from key national employment systems domains, namely the management
system, information and communication technology use, as well as training and
education. We show that these domains contribute simultaneously and with differ-
ent weights to cross-national differences, and conclude that domains’ contributions
reflect the specific institutional characteristics of the investigated national employ-
ment systems.
The authors: Stefan Kirchner and Sven Hauff
Link zur Zeitschrift: https://academic.oup.com/ser/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ser/mwx053/4683731