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Risk and Lack of Diversification under Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism

Blasi, Joseph R. - 2008

Some analysts view risk as the Achilles Heel of employee ownership and to some extent variable pay plans such as profit sharing and gainsharing. Workers in such "shared capitalist" firms may invest too much of their wealth in the firm, contrary to the principle of diversification. This paper...

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Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives : A Reappraisal

Borjas, George J. - 2008

In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born...

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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2005

This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the … immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and …

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Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

Kruse, Douglas L. - 2012

This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...

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The Mismeasurement of Work Time : Implications for Wage Discrimination and Inequality

Borjas, George J.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

workforce. Over 20 percent give contradictory information about whether they usually work a full-time weekly schedule. Part of …

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