Discussion of 'Profit Sharing and Employment Stability'

The article by Bellmann and Moeller offers an interesting and innovative approach to investigating how profit sharing in German companies affects employment stability, following the famous Weitzman (1984) share economy model. The paper is innovative, first, because the authors base their research on a broad data set (the IAB Establishment Panel), which comprises all German companies that have established a profit-sharing scheme; and second, because the authors' empirical research is concentrated not only on cross-sectional time series regressions, but also uses matching methods