Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21463 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 776
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study investigates the role of factors that determine individual employees? and firms? participation in profit sharing schemes. Using a large panel data of Finnish employees for the period 1996-2000 we analyse individual and workplace characteristics that make firms employ profit sharing schemes and workers susceptible of receiving profit sharing bonuses. In particular two links between profit sharing schemes and workers performance have been analysed. First, in looking at profit sharing as an incentive device the results show a positive link between firm size and monitoring costs. Second, we find that younger individuals with higher mean salary and capacity to bear risk are more susceptible to profit sharing schemes. The industrial sector in which the individual is employed is also an important determinant factor.
Subjects: 
individual
firm
profit sharing
panel data
JEL: 
J41
E24
C23
J30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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