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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...

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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...

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Job quality gaps between migrant and native gig workers : evidence from Poland

Kowalik, Zuzanna; Lewandowski, Piotr; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2023

, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the … job satisfaction. Migrants who started a gig job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also … cluster on taxi platforms which offer inferior working conditions. Poland is a New Immigration Destination where ethnic …

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The distribution of wages in Poland, 1992 - 2002

Newell, Andrew (contributor); … - 2005

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Does employee stock ownership work? : evidence from publicly-traded firms in Japan

Kato, Takao; Miyajima, Hideaki; Ōwan, Hideo - 2018

This paper provides novel evidence on the effects of employee stock ownership (ESO), a prominent example of shared capitalism. In so doing, we take advantage of our access to new panel data on Japanese ESO plans for a highly representative sample of publicly-traded firms in Japan (covering more...

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