TY  - JOUR
AU  - Chi,Wei
AU  - Freeman,Richard B.
AU  - Kleiner,Morris M.
TI  - Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12878
PY  - 2007
Y2  - January 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12878
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12878.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Wei Chi
School of Economics and Management
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China, 100084
E-Mail: chiw@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Richard B. Freeman
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/868-3900
Fax: 617/868-2742
E-Mail: freeman@nber.org

Morris M. Kleiner
University of Minnesota
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
260 Humphrey Center
301 19th Street South
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Tel: 612/625-2089
Fax: 612/625-6351
E-Mail: kleiner@umn.edu
AB  - This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways that imply that the policies are complementary with each other and with other advanced human resource practices, seemingly moving toward an equilibrium distribution of EI policies. Using a Markov model, we estimate the long-run distribution of the number of EI programs in firms and find that adjustment to the steady-state distribution takes about 20 years.
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