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Employee share ownership: An exploration of its economic and political impacts

Palmieri, Michael L
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-2542
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1711983312642234

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2024, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Political Science.
Expanding the number of employee-owned firms is becoming an increasingly popular strategy of governments aiming to provide quality jobs, increase community wealth, and decrease economic inequality. However, questions remain regarding how existing employee-owned firms shape the economic lives and political behavior of those who work at them. First, I investigate how employee-owned firms may shape the economic lives of workers by comparing them with both typical workers and union members across a wide range of measures including income, wealth, workplace benefits, layoff rates, and workplace participation. Second, I investigate how employee share ownership affects political behavior by focusing on whether employee attitudes, skills, and economic resources developed in employee-owned firms “spillover” and lead to increased individual political activity. Third, I investigate if and how the ownership of stock and higher levels of wealth associated with it are predictive of right-leaning political preferences. All three questions will be answered using the data from the General Social Survey and quantitative methods including multi-variate regressions and structural equation models. By investigating the economic and political impacts of employee share ownership this dissertation provides important information for practitioners, policymakers, and scholars concerned with both economic and political inequality and the relationship between economic resources and political behaviors and attitudes.
Ashley Nickels (Committee Co-Chair)
Christopher Michael (Committee Member)
Michael Ensley (Committee Member)
Ryan Claassen (Committee Co-Chair)
172 p.
Economics; Political Science
employee ownership; political participation; political behavior; economic inequality; workplace spillover; workplace participation; precarious work; economic inequality

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  • Palmieri, M. L. (2024). Employee share ownership: An exploration of its economic and political impacts [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1711983312642234

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Palmieri, Michael. Employee share ownership: An exploration of its economic and political impacts. 2024. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1711983312642234.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Palmieri, Michael. "Employee share ownership: An exploration of its economic and political impacts." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1711983312642234

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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