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Employee spinouts, social networks, and family firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a … "spinouts": managers of input divisions can start their own firms, making customized inputs formerly provided internally subject … lead to inefficiently low entry. Vertically integrated firms can fight back by hiring managers for their input divisions …
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On the allocation of time : a quantitative analysis of the US and France
Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015 - First version: October 1, 2012, This version: April 22, 2015
feed in taxes and labor productivities. To obtain this result it is crucial to measure the labor productivity of home …
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Import competition, heterogeneous preferences of managers, and productivity
Chen, Cheng; Steinwender, Claudia - 2019
may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has …When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may arise. An increase in competition … received ample theoretical attention, empirical evidence is scarce, mainly because preferences of managers are typically …
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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data
Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019
We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person's employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed persons report substantially lower levels of life...
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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?
Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015
The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...
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The bright side of the GDPR : welfare-improving privacy management
Choe, Chongwoo; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023
We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...
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Birth order and delinquency : evidence from Denmark and Florida
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Doyle, Joseph J.; Figlio, … - 2017
Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...
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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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Public provision, commodity demand and hours of work : an empirical analysis
Pirttilä, Jukka; Suoniemi, Ilpo - 2010
Atkinson and Stiglitz (Journal of Public Economics 1976) show that when the government has access to non-linear income taxation and consumer preferences are separable between consumption and leisure, there is no need for differentiated commodity taxation. This paper examines the empirical...
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Empirical estimation results of a collective household time allocation model
Klaveren, Chris van (contributor);  … - 2006
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