A sample of British firms with diverse sharing arrangements is used to investigate the effects of profit sharing on employment levels. Employment effects are sometimes significant but depend upon the measure of profit sharing, how the dynamics are modeled, and whether measures of employee...

For alternative sharing arrangements, we review theory on the economic effects on employment, productivity, investment, income and wealth distribution, and life cycle and survival. We find that predictions are often ambiguous and that sometimes the nature and size of the specific effect is...

We estimate probit models to investigate the determinants of the incidence of four performance-based compensation schemes - employee share purchase plans, profit sharing, cash bonuses, and productivity gainsharing - using a sample of private sector Canadian firms. Bivariate probit models are...

The compensation levels, duration structure and means-tested aspects of the income support system for the unemployed in Bulgaria are considered. The available evidence points to the emergence of long-term unemployment as a major problem, to a system of social assistance (SA) which is not overly...

The slowdown in productivity growth since the 1970s has led to increased interest in alternative compensation schemes such as profit sharing and gain sharing that might raise worker productivity and reduce turnover. In this working paper, Jones, Kato, and Pliskin summarize the rise in popularity...

By using new and unusual data sets for large samples of firms in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania we find that, since privatization, diverse patterns of enterprise ownership have emerged and ownership configurations are quite dynamic. To test competing theories on the productivity effects of...