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Profit-Sharing And Productivity: An International Comparison

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  • Cable, John
  • Wilson, Nicholas

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using a common estimating framework and comparable, primary data for two samples of firms in the British and West German engineering industries, the paper reports productivity differentials of 20-30% in favour of firms practising profit-sharing in West Germany, and 3-8% in Britain. Model selection procedures reveal important interactions between profit-sharing and other firm characteristics in both cases. We infer (a) that the observed differentials therefore capture the joint effects of a set of organisational choices of which profit-sharing is one element, and (b) that from a policy viewpoint, profit-sharing must be seen as part of a more general, organisational design process, rather than as an optional, add-on extra, as in some previous work and policy discussion. However, the characteristics of British and West German profit-sharers turn out to be quite different, indicating that there is evidently no single, stereotype formula for the effective use of profit-sharing.

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  • Cable, John & Wilson, Nicholas, 1988. "Profit-Sharing And Productivity: An International Comparison," Economic Research Papers 268336, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:uwarer:268336
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.268336
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    1. Cable, John R. & Wilson, Nicholas, 1988. "Profit-Sharing And Productivity: An Analysis Of Uk Engineering Firms," Economic Research Papers 268335, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
    2. Cable, J.R. & Wilson, N., 1988. "Profit-Sharing And Productivity: An Analysis Of Uk Engineering Firms," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 300, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.

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