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Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard - 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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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia

Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012

This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...

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The Effects of Board Gender Quotas: A Meta-Analysis

De Acutis, Costanza; Weber, Andrea; Wurm, Elisabeth - 2024

We use a meta-analysis to summarize the recent literature evaluating effects of the introduction of gender quotas on company boards. We collect data from 51 studies on policies implemented in 11 countries from which we extract 496 estimates. The literature considers the effects of quota policies...

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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands

Praag, Mirjam van; Cools, Kees - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompeting explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...

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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988 - 2007

Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - 2010

In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...

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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

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China's Great Boom as a Historical Process

Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2020

Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking … "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor historical analysis. This overlooks deep institutional constraints arising … decentralized innovation. Historic legacies that shape political structures and individual behavior will continue to influence China …

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The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in International Perspective

Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn Anders - 2021

global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …

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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms: New Evidence

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007

Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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