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Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences
Bhattacharya, Dhritiman - 2011
cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120407
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany : What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Busch, Anne - 2012
managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105996
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Managers and Productivity Differences
Guner, Nezih - 2016
We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non … managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively …-of-control model where managers invest in their skills. We parameterize this model with U.S. observations on managerial earnings, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002439
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Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Malchow-Moeller, Nikolaj - 2013
Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation resulting in fewer but bigger and presumably more efficient farms. In this paper, we exploit detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088331
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Job Creation by Firms in Denmark
Ibsen, Rikke - 2011
In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the question if it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributing much less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130788
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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2021
the firm level. The paper focuses on how the impact of the investment climate varies across sizes of firms. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316735
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Defending Gibrat's Law as a Long-Run Regularity
Lotti, Francesca; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021
According to Gibrat's Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, more recent research generally rejects it. This paper reconciles these two streams of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317119
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Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance : Is There an Association?
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2011
-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a … managers, but it is consistent with such claims and suggests that this area is now an important one for systematic future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122683
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A Theory of Expert Leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105998
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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover : The Case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156404