Summary
This project introduces the U.S. Census’s Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS) data into the employee share ownership research landscape, with the goal of investigating the role of workplace management and organizational practices in shaping the impact of broad-based employee share ownership on labor productivity at American manufacturing workplaces. We combine data from the 2010 and 2015 Census MOPS, the American Survey of Manufactures (ASM), the US Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), and the US Department of Labor Form 5500 Pension Database. MOPS is the largest management practices survey ever conducted of US manufacturing workplace establishments. We show, among other results, that adopting an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is associated with a 5.6 to 6.7 % increase in labor productivity over 2010 to 2015, controlling for workplace management and organizational practices.