Using the NBER Shared Capitalism Database comprised of over 40,000 employee surveys from 14 firms, we investigate worker attitudes towards employee ownership, profit sharing, and variable pay. Specifically, our study uses detailed survey questions on preferences over profit sharing, forms of...

The idea that profit sharing increases employment has been widely tested, but the theoretical basis for the claim is weak and the empirical results are ambiguous. This paper shows that employee stock ownership based on individually-held stakes avoids the problems of traditional profit sharing....

Contains proposals for combating European unemployment by a citizenship income guarantee coupled with community unionism and collective profit sharing.

Contains proposals for combating European unemployment by means of a citizenship income guarantee coupled with community unionism and collective profit sharing.

This paper is an overview of the achievements in the area of employee financial participation (EFP) during the last fifty years. It addresses the question of the extent to which EFP is relevant in today’s world. EFP is distinguished from participation in management (industrial democracy), and...

Seit 1996 führt das IAB jährlich eine Arbeitgeberbefragung in ostdeutschen Betrieben durch, um aktuelle repräsentative Daten über die Beschäftigungsentwicklung und deren Bestimmungsgrößen zu erhalten. Die achte Befragung vom Sommer 2003 erbrachte auswertbare Interviews von 5767 Betrieben....

"This article discusses from an economic point of view, both theoretically and empirically, whether firm foundation enhances employment, taking into account public regulation and promotion of firm foundation. Obviously, newly founded firms create employment. Simultaneously, however, competition...

"This study aims to help analysing the impact of public economic funding. Using the data of the IAB establishment panel from 1996 to 2009, we study the effect of public funding on a number of indicators that give insight into the development of companies. For this purpose, conditional...

Obwohl Vermieter, Stadtplaner und Stadtkämmerer die Erfüllung des Traums vom Eigenheim in der grünen Vorstadt als verfehlte Siedlungspolitik betrachten,und schon ein Ende dieses Wohnmodells voraussagen, hat es in der Bevölkerung nicht an Anziehungskraft verloren.Warnungen vor negativen...