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Hansen, Stephen; Sadun, Raffaella; Ramdas, Tejas; … - 2021

We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...

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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schonberg, Uta - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...

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Does High Inflation Cause Central Bankers to Lose Their Job? Evidence Based on a New Data Set

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2021

This paper introduces new data on the term in office of central bank governors in 137 countries for 1970-2004. Our panel models show that the probability that a central bank governor is replaced in a particular year is positively related to the share of the term in office elapsed, political and...

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Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments

Gumpert, Anna - 2019

increase the use of middle managers in multi-establishment firms. In our model, we assume that the time of the CEO of a firm is … the costs of accessing the CEO. Hiring middle managers at an establishment substitutes for CEO time that is reallocated … that we document using administrative data from Germany. We exploit the opening of high-speed train routes to show that not …

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Dual Labour Markets Revisited

Bentolila, Samuel - 2019

This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...

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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts : Theory and Evidence

Cao, Shutao - 2014

This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex-ante identical workers and employers. Workers under fixed-term contracts can be dismissed at no cost while permanent employees enjoy labor protection. In a labor market...

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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees

Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2021

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …

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Merger Policy in Digital Markets : An Ex-Post Assessment

Argentesi, Elena - 2020

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions … important merger cases, Facebook/Instagram and Google/Waze, providing a systematic assessment of the theories of harm considered …

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Do Firms Gain from Managerial Overconfidence? The Role of Severance Pay

Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - 2022

We analyze the effects of optimism and overconfidence when the manager’s compensation package includes severance pay …

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What Do Central Bankers Do? Evidence from the European Central Banks' Executive Board

Badinger, Harald - 2019

This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working …

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