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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786965
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Foreign investment, corporate ownership, and development : are firms in emerging markets catching up to the world standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor);  … - 2005
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002548972
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Distance to the efficiency frontier and FDI spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this negative spilloverʺ effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452319
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Do employee share owners face too much financial risk?
Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph R.; Weltmann, Dan; … - 2019
A major theoretical objection against employee ownership is that workers become inadequately diversified and exposed to excessive financial risk. Recent theory concludes that 10-15% of a worker's wealth portfolio can be prudently invested in employer stock provided the rest of the portfolio is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002671
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Towards economic democracy and social justice : profit sharing, co-determination, and employee ownership
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2020
Modern economies deprive workers of natural democratic rights and any share of the surplus they produce, with most of the benefits of growth appropriated by capital owners. Worker wellbeing and job satisfaction are ignored unless they contribute directly to profitability, while precarious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213762
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The productivity effects of profit sharing, employee ownership, stock option and team incentive plans : evidence from korean panel data
Kato, Takao; Lee, Ju-ho; Ryu, Jang-soo - 2010
We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Stock Option Plans (SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796746
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Framing effects in an employee savings scheme : a non-parametric analysis
Kooreman, Peter; Melenberg, Bertrand; Prast, Henriëtte … - 2013
Studies have found evidence that seemingly irrelevant details of an income component such as its label have an effect on how it is used. Using a data set with more than one million employee-month observations, we investigate the role of functional form assumptions and time aggregation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696940
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Employee stock purchase plans : gift or incentive? ; evidence from a multinational corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - 2014
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414209
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The growth of participant direction in defined contribution plans
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2009
Since 1990, most pension plans have shifted the responsibility for directing pension assets to the employee. This study summarizes some of the possible explanations for this rapid shift toward participant direction and uses IRS Form 5500 data to investigate the effect of worker and plan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829728
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Do firms really share rents with their workers?
Margolis, David N.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2001
We use matched firm-worker panel data from France and Norway to consider observationally equivalent alternatives to the hypothesis that firms share product market rents with their workers in the form of higher wages. After documenting the main stylized facts, we find that neither the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402884