New Research on Job Stability and Employee Ownership

In the book How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions?, co-authors Fidan Kurtulus and Douglas Kruse explore new data about job stability at employee ownership companies during the Great Recession. Dr. Kruse observes: "If good-paying, stable jobs are the economy's goal, then encouraging employee stock ownership in companies makes a lot of sense. As part of corporate tax reform, there's a good case for providing some of these tax incentives to companies that adopt employee stock ownership." The paper analyzes data from 8,000 publicly traded companies and was funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.