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Post-merger Restructuring of the Labor Force

Gehrke, Britta; Maug, Ernst; Obernberger, Stefan; … - 2021

We study the restructuring of the labor force after mergers and acquisitions. Overall restructuring is large. Net employment of targets declines by more than half within two years after acquisitions relative to a matched sample, and is concentrated in targets that close all establishments. There...

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Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?

Margolis, David N. - 2006

. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in … the short term after takeover than those of the acquiring firm and with the differences between the two types of firms …

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Accounting for China's growth

Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level (Rawski and Perkins, 2008; Bosworth and Collins, 2008) suggest an...

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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison

Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - 2003

In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether … model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle …

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How unjust! An experimental investigation of supervisors' evaluation errors and agents' incentives

Marchegiani, Lucia; Reggiani, Tommaso; Rizzolli, Matteo - 2011

In our simple model the supervisor: i) cannot observe the agent's effort; ii) aims at inducing the agent to exert high effort; but iii) can only offer rewards based on performance. Since performance is only stochastically related to effort, evaluation errors may occur. In particular, deserving...

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Microentrepreneurs' Gender Difference in Labor Demand

Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2022

This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...

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Ownership and Pay in Britain

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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Firm Ownership Control and Management Practices, with an Update on Sub-Saharan Africa

Dabalen, Andrew; Paul, Saumik - 2024

This paper examines if ownership control - the share of largest owner in the firm - explains the difference in the adoption of management best practices between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and rest-of-the-world (ROW). Using a sample of 156,833 firms from 130 countries, of which 25,005 are in SSA,...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China: evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive compensation and ownership structure, we find for...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and chaebols in Korea: evidence from new panel data

Kato, Takao; Kim, Woochan; Lee, Ju Ho - 2005

This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...

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