TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dube,Arindrajit
AU  - Freeman,Richard
TI  - Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems:  Evidence from the American Labor Market
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14272
PY  - 2008
Y2  - August 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14272
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14272.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Arindrajit Dube
Department of Economics
1030 Thompson Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
E-Mail: adube@econs.umass.edu

Richard B. Freeman
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/868-3900
Fax: 617/868-2742
E-Mail: freeman@nber.org
M3  - presented at "Shared Capitalism Conference", October 6-7, 2006
AB  - This paper examines the relationship between shared capitalist modes of pay and shared modes of decision-making via employee involvement and related committees and between them and measures of productivity and worker well-being in two data sets: the employee based Worker Participation and Representation Survey and the California Establishment Survey.  It finds in both data sets that the forms of shared compensation are complementary in the sense that they are more likely to be found together than if firms chose them separately; that shared compensation systems are positively associated with shared decision-making; and that combining shared compensation systems and employee involvement has greater impacts on outcomes than each system by itself.
ER  -