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Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism?

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John W. Budd

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The potential of shared capitalism to improve individual and organizational performance through financial incentives depends on employees knowing about and participating in compensation plans that link rewards to performance. This paper therefore analyzes a survey of employees from multiple companies to assess the extent to which employees are ignorant about company, group, and individual-based incentive pay plans and ESOPs. The findings reveal significant amounts of employee ignorance in both under- and overstating the extent to which such plans apply to them individually.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 14236.

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  2. Barry T. Hirsch & David A. MacPherson & J. Michael Dumond, 1997. "Workers' Compensation recipiency in union and nonunion workplaces," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 50(2), pages 213-236, January.
  3. John W. Budd & Karen Mumford, 2004. "Trade unions and family-friendly policies in Britain," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 57(2), pages 204-222, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. John W. Budd, 2004. "Non-Wage Forms of Compensation," Journal of Labor Research, Transaction Publishers, vol. 25(4), pages 597-622, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. John W. Budd & Karen Mumford, 2005. "Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility," IZA Discussion Papers 1662, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  7. David Card & Richard Blundell & Richard B. Freeman, 2004. "Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number card04-1.
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  9. McCall, Brian P, 1995. "The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Levels on Recipiency," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, American Statistical Association, vol. 13(2), pages 189-98, April.
  10. John W. Budd & Brian McCall, 1997. "The effect of unions on the receipt of unemployment insurance benefits," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 50(3), pages 478-492, April.
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