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Employee Ownership and Wealth Inequality: A Path to Reducing Wealth Concentration

Ethan Rouen, Thomas Dudley | September, 2021

This paper examines the impact of an economy-wide shift to broad-based employee ownership on wealth concentration in the United States. Relying on government data, we show that if all private firms became 30% employee-owned, the wealth distribution would be profoundly altered. Those currently in the bottom 90% of the wealth distribution would see substantial gains, … Read More

The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership

Ethan Rouen, Thomas Dudley | May, 2021

Inequality in the U.S. has been getting worse for decades: The richest 1% own a majority of all business wealth, and the top 10% own more than 90%. It has become clear that companies need to address the problem. One place to start is by expanding employees’ ownership stakes in companies, giving workers a path … Read More