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How Are Employers Responding to an Aging Workforce?
Clark, Robert L. - 2020
The American population is aging and changes in the population's age structure are leading to an aging of the nation's workforce. In addition, changes to age specific participation rates are exacerbating the aging of the national labor force. An important challenge for firms and organizations is...
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Local Dividend Clienteles
Becker, Bo - 2009
We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically-varying demand for dividends. Firms...
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The Internal Governance of Firms
Acharya, Viral V. - 2009
We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential …
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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2008
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …
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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives
Bandiera, Oriana - 2011
We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...
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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015
secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …
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Deals versus rules : policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2010
"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be influenced by firm actions (e.g. bribes) and...
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Is Pollution Value-Maximizing? The DuPont Case
Shapira, Roy - 2017
DuPont, one of the most respectable U.S. companies, caused environmental damage that ended up costing the company around a billion dollars. By using internal company documents disclosed in trials we rule out the possibilities that this bad outcome was due to ignorance, an unexpected realization,...
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Do Publicly Traded Corporations Act in the Public Interest?
Gordon, Roger H. - 1990
Models of corporate behavior normally assume that a firm acts in the interest of shareholders, and that shareholders care only about the returns they receive on the shares they own in that firm. But shareholders should also care about the effects of a manager's decisions on the value of shares...
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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave : An Exploratory Study
Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020
Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these questions. These include the BLS-Employee Benefit Survey (EBS) for 2010 to 2018 and an extensive firm-level data collection...
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