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- Diff-in-Diff 0.084∗∗ 0.040-0.005 (0.036) (0.038) (0.021) DiD 0.092∗∗ 0.047-0.009 Industry FE (0.037) (0.039) (0.022) Control Mean: Stock Cs 0.579 0.532 0.107 00, LLCs 0.317 0.275 0.044 N, Stock Cs 452 452 452 N, LLCs 37,268 37,268 37,268 Panel B: Parent of Corporate Domestic Corp. Corp. Group Group Group w/ > 2000 Emp.
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- Figure C.6: Effect of Shared Governance on Supervisory Board Composition (a) 1(Woman on Board) 0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 1(Women > 0) 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) No Winsorization Pref’d Spec: No W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 0.350 (b) Share Women on Board (0-1.00) -.05 0 .05 .1 .15 Share Women 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) 1% Winsorization 2% W’n 5% W’n Pref’d Spec: 1% W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 0.125 (c) 1(Doctorate Holder on Board) -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 1(PhD /
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- Figure C.7: Effect of Shared Governance on Executive Board Composition (a) 1(Woman on Board) -.1 0 .1 .2 .3 1(Women > 0) 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) No Winsorization Pref’d Spec: No W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 0.595 (b) Share Women on Board (0-1.00) -.05 0 .05 .1 Share Women 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) 1% Winsorization 2% W’n 5% W’n Pref’d Spec: 1% W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 0.160 (c) 1(Doctorate Holder on Board) -.05 0 .05 .1 .15 .2 1(PhD /
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- Figure C.8: Effect of Shared Governance on Firm Scale (a) Revenue (Log) -1 -.5 0 .5 Log Revenue 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) 1% Winsorization 2% W’n 5% W’n Pref’d Spec: 1% W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 14.134 (b) Value Added (Log) -1 -.5 0 .5 Log Val.
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- Old LLCs (controls) New LLCs (controls) Note: The figure is based on the linked BvD Orbis-ADIAB data and shows the average number of establishments for firms incorporated in the 1990s. The navy line with solid circles plots the number of establishments for stock corporations incorporated before August 10, 1994 and the maroon line with hollow circles plots the number for stock corporations incorporated after the cutoff date. The green line with solid triangles and purple line with hollow triangles do so for old and new LLCs respectively. Figure C.5: BvD Firms’ Sum of IAB Employment Relative to BvD Incorporation Date (a) arcinsh(IAB Employment) 0 1 2 3 4 asinh(IAB Employment) -5 0 5 10 15 Year of Firm Incorporation (BvD) Old Stock Corps. (Shared gov.) New Stock Corps. Old LLCs (controls) New LLCs (controls) (b) Level of IAB Employment 0 50 100 150 IAB Employment -5 0 5 10 15 Year of Firm Incorporation (BvD) Old Stock Corps. (Shared gov.) New Stock Corps.
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- Old LLCs (controls) New LLCs (controls) Note: The figure is based on the Orbis-ADIAB data and shows employment data for firms incorporated in the 1990s. Panels (a) and (b) plot employment as arcinsh(employment) and in levels, respectively. The navy line plots employment for stock corporations incorporated before August 10, 1994 and the maroon line employment for stock corporations incorporated after the cutoff date. The green line with solid triangles and purple line with hollow triangles do so for old and new LLCs respectively.
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- Other Shareholders Fundst+1 − P/L for Periodt+1 − Other Shareholders Fundst + P/L for Periodt P/L for Periodt • Retained Earningst Other Shareholders Fundst Total Assetst • Average Debt Maturityt Long Term Debtt + Loanst Loanst B.3.2 Firm-Level TFP Construction Using the sample of firms incorporated five years around the reform cutoff date (i.e. 1989 to 1999), we keep all observations between 2005 and 2015 with non-missing values for industry classification, wage bill, and value-added. We apply the sample restrictions described in Appendix Section B.2.3. We then calculate industry-specific labor shares: 1. For each 2-digit NACE industry i and year t, we calculate the total wage bill and total value-added and divide the first by the second. Call this αit. 2. Within i, we replace any αit ≥ 1 with the highest αit among all t that is less than 1. 3. We calculate the industry-specific average share αi across all years t.
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- Qualified Manual 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) 1% Winsorization 2% W’n 5% W’n Pref’d Spec: 1% W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 0.132 (e) Share Qualified Service -.03 -.02 -.01 0 .01 .02 %
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- See Appendix Section B for more information on the sample construction and Appendix Figure C.10 for the specification with industry-year fixed effects at additional bandwidths and winsorization levels. The control means refer to observations of firms incorporated on or after August 10, 1994. Standard errors clustered at the firm level are reported in parentheses. Stars denote statistical significance: * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01.
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- See Appendix Section B for more information on the sample construction and Appendix Figure C.13 for specifications at additional bandwidths and winsorization levels. The control means refer to observations of firms incorporated on or after August 10, 1994. Standard errors are clustered at the firm level are reported in parentheses. Stars denote statistical significance: * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01.
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- See Appendix Section B for more information on the sample construction. The control means refer to observations of firms incorporated on or after August 10, 1994. Robust standard errors are reported in parentheses. Stars denote statistical significance: * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01.
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- Tenure 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) 1% Winsorization 2% W’n 5% W’n Pref’d Spec: 1% W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 0.012 Note: The figure plots difference-in-differences estimates of the reduced-form effect of shared governance on tenure at different bandwidths of incorporation dates relative to August 10, 1994 and different winsorization levels. The square maroon marker denotes our preferred 2-year bandwidth and 1% winsorization specification. Indicator outcomes are not winsorized. All specifications include industry-by-year fixed effects. The vertical bars denote confidence intervals based on standard errors clustered at the firm level.
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- Tenure 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) 1% Winsorization 2% W’n 5% W’n Pref’d Spec: 1% W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 0.043 (f) Separations: 9+ Years -.01 -.005 0 .005 Outflow, >9 Yrs.
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- Tenure 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Bandwidth (Years around August 10, 1994) 1% Winsorization 2% W’n 5% W’n Pref’d Spec: 1% W'n + 2-Yr Bwidth Control Mean, Young Stock Cs: 0.118 (e) Separations: 4-9 Years -.005 0 .005 .01 .015 Outflow, 4-9 Yrs.
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- The 1994 reform of the Corporation Law stipulates that the incorporation date relevant to the worker representation mandate is the date of entry into the German Trade Register (Handelsregister). In the 1990s, the firm’s date of trade register entry was often up to a few months after the establishment date of its charter (Feststellung der Satzung). To use the most accurate legally relevant incorporation date, we replace the incorporation date in the Orbis Historical/EBDC data sets with the date of first trade register entry from the Dafne data set if the date of first trade register entry is within one year (365 days) of the firm’s assigned incorporation date. If the Dafne date is more than a year before or after the incorporation date in the Orbis Historical/EBDC data sets, we assume that the first trade register entry date reported in the Dafne data set is not the true first entry date.
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- The control means refer to observations of firms incorporated on or after August 10, 1994. Standard errors clustered at the firm level are reported in parentheses. Stars denote statistical significance: * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01.
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- The control means refer to observations of firms incorporated on or after August 10, 1998 or August 10, 2002. Robust standard errors are reported in parentheses; we do not cluster here as we only have one observation per firm. Stars denote statistical significance: * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01.
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- The control means refer to observations of firms incorporated on or after August 10, 1998 or August 10, 2002. Robust standard errors are reported in parentheses; we do not cluster here as we only have one observation per firm. Stars denote statistical significance: * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01.
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- The reason is that even before 1994, the law always exempted stock corporations wholly owned by one family from one-third codetermination so that such firms were not affected by the 1994 reform. We describe how we identify such family stock corporations in Appendix Section B.1 above.
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- The table reports the results of DiD specifications as in (11). The sample is restricted to stock corporations (AGs) and limited liability companies (LLCs, GmbHs) with 10 or more employees incorporated within two years of the reform date of August 10, 1994. We use 2-digit NACE designations for industry fixed effects.
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- This BvD ID/establishment ID crosswalk is conducted for cross sections from 2006 to 2014. Based on the resulting crosswalk, additional waves of BHP establishment data for previous years were merged. Preparation of the Linked Data For the preparation of our final analysis data, we start with the Orbis component of the Orbis-ADIAB data.
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- We cannot credibly calculate the presence of one-third codetermination at the corporate group level because a stricter legal standard for defining corporate groups applies there: business entities are only counted towards a corporate group for the purposes of one-third codetermination if they are completely integrated into the group (Eingliederung) or if a domination agreement of the group over the unit exists ( 2 (2) DrittelbG). Domination agreements are empirically rare (e.g., Lieder and Hoffmann, 2017, find that 3 to 7% of stock corporations are governed by such agreements) and not reported in the data. The regression results reveal a higher probability of being a part of a corporate group but not on membership in a domestic corporate group or in a group with more than 2,000 employees at domestic business entities. Across specifications, we do not find statistically significant effects and point estimates are close to zero with standard errors of about 2 to 4ppt.
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- We report the results of DiD specifications as in (11). The sample is restricted to stock corporations (AGs) and limited liability companies (LLCs, GmbHs) with 10 or more employees incorporated within two years of August 10, 1998 on Panel A and within two years of August 10, 2002 on Panel B. We use 2-digit NACE designations for industry fixed effects. See Appendix Section B for more information on the sample construction.
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- We report the results of DiD specifications as in (11). The sample is restricted to stock corporations (AGs) and limited liability companies (LLCs, GmbHs) with 10 or more employees incorporated within two years of August 10, 1998 on Panel A and within two years of August 10, 2002 on Panel B. We use 2-digit NACE designations for industry fixed effects. See Appendix Section B for more information on the sample construction.
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- We use 2-digit NACE designations for industry fixed effects. Non-indicator outcomes are winsorized at the 1% level by year. See Appendix Section B for more information on the sample construction and Appendix Figure C.9 for the specification with industry-year fixed effects at additional bandwidths and winsorization levels. The control means refer to observations of firms incorporated on or after August 10, 1994. Standard errors clustered at the firm level are reported in parentheses. Stars denote statistical significance: * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01.
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