Financial Participation of Employees in the EU-27

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. A European Platform for Financial Participation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Building Block Approach to a Common European Model

      • Jens Lowitzsch

      Pages 3-69

3. The Legal Background

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. The Challenge: Functional Changes in Property Rights in Europe

      • Herwig Roggemann, Jens Lowitzsch

      Pages 73-84

   3. The Legal Framework for Implementing Financial Participation at the Supranational Level

      • Jens Lowitzsch, Natalia Spitsa

      Pages 85-120

   4. Systematic Overview of Financial Participation

      • Jens Lowitzsch, Axel Bormann

      Pages 121-135

   5. The US ESOP as an Example of an Advanced Model

      • John D. Menke, Stefan Hanisch, Jens Lowitzsch

      Pages 136-155

4. Empirical Evidence and Country Information

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Benchmarking Financial Participation in the EU

      • Iraj Hashi, Richard Woodward, Jens Lowitzsch

      Pages 159-180

   3. Country Profiles

      • Jens Lowitzsch, Natalia Spitsa, Stefan Hanisch

      Pages 181-308

5. Back Matter

   Pages 309-327

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This book aims to systematically assess laws and practices, close gaps that currently prevent a full profiling of financial participation, provide a description of individual countries against the background of comparable scores for the EU 27 and to promote a common platform for financial participation within the European Union.

• benchmarking
• Europe
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• information
• participation
• property
• Union
• european union politics

• Inter-University Centre at the Institute for Eastern European Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany

  Jens Lowitzsch

JENS LOWITZSCH is Lawyer and senior researcher at the Inter-University Centre at the Institute for Eastern European Studies of the Free University of Berlin, where he received his doctoral degree in law in 2002. Being a specialist in civil law, European law and financial participation of employees, he acquired an economic background in various research and consulting projects. His involvement in technical assistance in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe focuses on insolvency law, business law, and privatization law.

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