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the literature on executive pay: the manager power hypothesis and the efficient pay hypothesis. We find support for the … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …
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We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices …'s characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not … time. -- family economics ; intra-household decision power ; gender differences …
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In economics many articles are subjected to multiple rounds of refereeing at the same journal, which generates time … social sciences. We examine whether repeated refereeing produces any benefits, using an experiment at one journal that allows …, and other characteristics. There is no payoff to refereeing beyond the first round and no difference between accept …
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Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...
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We study the demand for skills by using text analysis methods on job descriptions in a large volume of ads posted on an online Indian job portal. We make use of domain-specific unlabeled data to obtain word vector representations (i.e., word embeddings) and discuss how these can be leveraged for...
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Although school autonomy is often advocated as a way to improve student achievement, many countries are experiencing a counterbalancing trend: the emergence of 'chains' that bind schools together into structures with varying degrees of centralization. Despite their prominence, no evidence exists...
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This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
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Internal organization relies heavily on psychological consistency requirements. This thought has been emphasized in modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of...
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Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
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