Alves, G, Burdin, G and Dean, A (2016) Workplace democracy and job flows. Journal of Comparative Economics, 44 (2). pp. 258-271. ISSN 0147-5967
Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between workplace democracy and job flows by comparing the behavior of worker-managed firms (WMFs) and conventional firms (CFs). The empirical analysis relies on high frequency administrative firm-level panel data from Uruguay over the period April 1996–July 2009. The main findings of the paper are that (1) WMFs exhibit much more stable job dynamics than CFs; (2) both types of firms have decreasing in age and increasing in size gross job creation profiles; (3) there are heterogeneous employment regimes within WMFs: job creation and destruction rates are high for hired workers and very low for members. This paper contributes to the literature on the role of institutions in shaping job flows. Our results have important implications for the understanding of the allocative efficiency effects of worker participation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal of Comparative Economics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Job flows, Worker-managed firms |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2015 11:59 |
Last Modified: | 28 Sep 2017 10:51 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2015.09.001 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jce.2015.09.001 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:92221 |