Key Studies on Employee Ownership and Corporate Performance summarizes the findings of studies on employee ownership and corporate performance, including studies related to private company ESOPs:

• ESOPs, Private Companies
  
  
• Sales growth: +2.4%
• Employment growth: +2.3%
• Productivity growth: +2.3%


• ESOPs, Private Companies
  
  
• Sales growth: +3.8%
• Employment growth: +3.4%
  
  
• ESOPs and Employee Compensation
  
  
• Wages 5% to 12% higher
• Total retirement assets 2.6 times greater
• Diversified retirement assets roughly comparable


• ESOPs and Employee Compensation
  
  
  • ESOP participants are at least as likely to participate in a second retirement plans as comparable non-ESOP participants are likely to be in any retirement plan