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CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on CEO turnover, ownership structure and board characteristics, we estimate Logit models of CEO turnover. We find consistently for all performance measures including both stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566546
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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
managers and thus possibly making China’s listed firms less effective in solving the agency problem. As such, ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566733
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than … general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive … team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884351
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959660
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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233812
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Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Basile, Roberto; Girardi, Alessandro; Mantuano, Marianna; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes in the international division of labour occurred....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395444
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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220616
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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents theory and evidence showing that institutional reforms in developing countries can effectively expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884325
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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms: New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763675
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Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353426