Employee share ownership and profit-sharing in the European Union; incidence, company characteristics, and union representation
Pendleton, Andrew ; Poutsma, Erik ; Brewster, Chris ; Van Ommeren, Jos
Transfer. European Review of Labour and Research
2002
8
1
Spring
47-62
comparison ; labour relations ; profit sharing ; statistics ; trade union recognition ; trade union role ; workers participation ; workers stock ownership
Workers participation and European works councils
English
Bibliogr.
"This article examines the incidence of financial participation across the European Union at the end of the 1990s. The main findings are that the incidence of both profit-sharing and share ownership differ considerably across member states and that this correlates broadly with the extent of differences in legislative and fiscal support for them. Other factors, such as domestic ownership, stock market listing, size (in the case of share ownership) and workforce composition, are also important. On the whole clear or strong relationships between union density and financial participation were not identified. "
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