Voice at Work

We thank Nikhil Basavappa, Alexander Busch, Raymond Han, Ida Kankaanranta, Nelson Mesker, Shakked Noy, Patrick Schwarz, and Dalton Zhang for excellent research assistance. We thank seminar and conference participants at the Bank of Italy/CEPR/EIEF Conference on Ownership, Governance, Management and Firm Performance, Bank of Italy-CEPR Labour Workshop, Boston College, CESifo, Cornell University, JKU Linz, Labor and Finance Group Conference, LSE/IFS Public Seminar, Mannheim, MIT IWER, NBER Public Economics Program Meeting, NBER Labor Studies Program Meeting, OECD, Princeton University, SOLE, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UCL, the University of Toronto, VATT, Washington Center for Equitable Growth grantee conference, and the Zurich-Lausanne Workshop "Job Search and the Labor Market." We thank Petri Böckerman, Arin Dube, Viktar Fedaseyeu, Egle Karmaziene, Tomi Kyyrä, Joonas Tuhkuri, Roope Uusitalo, and John Van Reenen for valuable feedback. We also thank five anonymous worker representatives for in-depth interviews about their role as a worker representative. We thank Harri Hietala and Maria Jauhiainen for valuable discussions about the institutional details. Finally, we thank Merja Jutila Roon and Maria Jauhiainen for help in designing and conducting the survey of worker representatives. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• March 4, 2021
• November 26, 2021