Arbeitspapier

Wages, employment, and capital in capitalist and worker-owned firms

Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a matched employer-worker panel data set from Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker-managed firms. These differences are related to orthodox models of the capitalist firm and worker co-op. The estimates of the wage, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in capitalist enterprises. Given the breadth of the data set analyzed, the results can claim to constitute general findings about capitalist and co-op enterprises.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2188

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms; Employee Ownership
Firm Behavior: Theory
Business Objectives of the Firm
Thema
worker-owned firms
capitalist firms
wages
employment
capital
Arbeiterselbstverwaltung
Lohn
Beschäftigung
Volatilität
Unternehmen
Kapital
Italien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pencavel, John H.
Pistaferri, Luigi
Schivardi, Fabiano
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2006

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Pencavel, John H.
  • Pistaferri, Luigi
  • Schivardi, Fabiano
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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