This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship … have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …

describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … significant effect of private ownership share on the level and growth of labor productivity, the estimates ranging from 13 to 32 …

expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving … theoretical predictions, we find empirically that ownership liberalization and judicial quality played an important role in …

linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey … (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in dispersed ownership workplaces. The raw gap of 30 log points falls to 8 … ownership. …

model based on a natural experiment in which China lifted its restrictions on foreign ownership for multinational companies … ownership structure, the skill upgrading in exports, and the evolution of wage inequality from 1992 to 2008 in China …

-owned and privatised firms. Apart from ownership effects we also find, at the firm level, an inverse correlation of size and net …

ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find that government shareholding is surprisingly large. Its effect on … shareholding stakes increase, but beyond this corporate value begins to increase. We interpret this in terms of ownership …

firm-year level with information about start-up financing, current financing, owner demographics, ownership structure …

economic shocks are affected by establishment ownership. We find evidence hat some types of local ownership do insulate regions … corporate headquarters and, to a lesser extent, from small, locally-owned chains. -- Local ownership ; employment shocks …