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...

The premise of this paper is that state aid to distressed companies should benefit not only the current owners but also the employees, who are the ones taking personal risks to continue or restart companies. Government aid during the Great Recession was aimed primarily at restoring the status...

Die Mitarbeiterkapitalbeteiligung kann ein wichtiges Instrument für eine nachhaltige Unternehmensführung sein, gerade in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. Wie aber sehen die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter selber dieses Instrument? Diese Studie zeigt, dass sie die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen...

In the United Kingdom there are currently no statutory regulations on company workers' participation. Generally speaking, UK companies have a monistic governance structure with a board of directors. Theresa May (former prime minister) announced that in future workers were to have representatives...

France is one of 18 EU countries with workers' participation in the supervisory board or the board of directors. Since 2013, moreover, it has also been obligatory in the private sector for companies with more than 1,000 employees in France or 5,000 worldwide. In recent years, the academic, trade...

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...

Die finanzielle Mitarbeiterbeteiligung wird zwar gerne als Instrument mit vielfältigen Vorzügen gelobt. Gleichwohl hinkt ihre die Nutzung in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich hinterher. Auf Grundlage dreier repräsentativer Befragungen im Zeitraum von 2007 bis 2015 untersuchen die...

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...