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Table 3 Determinants of establishments’ personnel adjustments, including interaction terms of works council with collective bargaining agreements

From: Personnel adjustments during the Covid-19 pandemic: did co-determination make a difference?

Dependent variable

Hiring rate

Dismissal rate

Quit rate

Churning rate

Net employment growth rate

Short-time work (dummy)

Works council (dummy)

− 0.0202

(0.0123)

− 0.0197

(0.0074)***

− 0.0102

(0.0190)

− 0.0296

(0.0189)

0.0086

(0.0209)

− 0.0230

(0.0619)

Works council * collective agreement, sectoral level (dummy)

− 0.0519

(0.0257)**

− 0.0125

(0.0113)

− 0.0565

(0.0340)*

− 0.1132

(0.0448)**

0.0161

(0.0304)

− 0.0123

(0.0755)

Works council * collective agreement, firm level (dummy)

− 0.0057

(0.0203)

0.0154

(0.0097)

0.0275

(0.0353)

− 0.0138

(0.0347)

− 0.0535

(0.0366)

0.0667

(0.0947)

Collective agreement, sectoral level (dummy)

0.0364

(0.0195)*

0.0092

(0.0099)

0.0343

(0.0202)*

0.0918

(0.0347)***

− 0.0074

(0.0166)

− 0.0179

(0.0330)

Collective agreement, firm level (dummy)

− 0.0099

(0.0166)

− 0.0200

(0.0076)***

− 0.0068

(0.0241)

0.0042

(0.0294)

0.0200

(0.0249)

n− 0.0776

(0.0641)

R-squared

0.1176

0.1065

0.1206

0.1126

0.1627

0.3305

No. of observations

1192

1192

1192

1192

1192

1192

  1. OLS regressions; robust standard errors in parentheses; ***/**/*indicates statistical significance at the1/5/10% level, respectively; private sector, establishments with at least 5 employees; further control variables as in Table 2