Firm ownership and rent sharing

Natália Monteiro, Miguel Portela () and Odd Rune Straume

No 13/2010, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho

Abstract: We analyse - theoretically and empirically - how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes across a wide spectrum of economic sectors over more than 20 years, we find a positive relationship between private ownership and rent sharing. Based on our theoretical analysis, this result cannot be explained by private firms being more profit oriented than public ones. However, the result is consistent with privatisation leading to less job security, implying stronger efficiency wage effects.

Keywords: rent sharing; private vs public ownership; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D21 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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