Arbeitspapier

Towards Economic Democracy and Social Justice: Profit Sharing, Co-Determination, and Employee Ownership

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 employment and underemployment, with stagnant or declining real wages, have persisted over four decades, despite recent low official unemployment. For economic democracy and social justice, we propose redistributive tax and welfare reform, extended codetermination, subsidised profit sharing and employee buyouts.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13238

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
economic democracy
participation
co-determination
profit sharing
employee ownership

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
FitzRoy, Felix
Nolan, Michael A.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2020

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • FitzRoy, Felix
  • Nolan, Michael A.
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2020

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