How do worker cooperatives stabilize employment? The role of profit reinvestment into locked assets
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worker cooperatives; asset locks; employment stability; wage smoothing;All these keywords.
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- J54 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms
- P13 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Cooperative Enterprises
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