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Retained state shareholding in Chinese PLCs : does government ownership reduce corporate value?

Tian, Lihui (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China's newly privatized …

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Ownership or performance : what determines board of directors' turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 2000

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...

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Does employee stock ownership work? : evidence from publicly-traded firms in Japan

Kato, Takao; Miyajima, Hideaki; Ōwan, Hideo - 2018

This paper provides novel evidence on the effects of employee stock ownership (ESO), a prominent example of shared capitalism. In so doing, we take advantage of our access to new panel data on Japanese ESO plans for a highly representative sample of publicly-traded firms in Japan (covering more...

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Boards of directors in Russian publicly traded companies in 1998-2014 : structure, dynamics and performance effects

Muravyev, Alexander - 2016

This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded in the RTS/MICEX/MOEX over...

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Ownership and pay in Britain

Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard F. - 2015

Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is 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...

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Expanding export variety : the role of institutional reforms in developing countries

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2013

raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …

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Offshoring and wage inequality : theory and evidence from China

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2017

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 …

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Gender wage-productivity differentials and global integration in China

Dammert, Ana C.; Ural Marchand, Beyza; Wan, Chi - 2013

structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes …-exporting firms. -- China ; gender wage discrimination ; globalization ; firm ownership …

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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …

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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms : new evidence

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2008

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

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