126 (2) 2006

Codetermination and Personnel Turnover: Ten Years Later

Bernd Frick

Summarizing, it appears that a large number of empirical analyses using the best data sets that are currently available for Germany deliver results that are virtually identical to the ones I re-ported in my 1996 paper (this does, of course, not rule out entirely that my paper is plagued by certain methodological weaknesses). However, the findings presented by Kraft in his replication are incompatible not only with my findings, but also with the more recent studies quoted above. Not surprisingly, the only study reaching similar conclusions than Kraft in his replication has been published by Kraft (1986) himself. That study, however, used a very small data set from the German metal industry and employed some difficult to justify measures of worker represen-tation. I therefore leave it to the reader to decide whether he/she finds Kraft's or my (and my colleagues) empirical evidence more convincing.

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