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Soft Means and Hard Challenges : Fundamental Discrepancies and the Promise of Non-Binding Arbitration for International Framework Agreements

Rosado Marzán, César F. - 2014

globalization, global labor unions have been able to sign International Framework Agreements (“IFAs”) with more than 110 … multi-national firms and global labor unions. Global labor unions are labor organizations composed of national-level labor …

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Making Globalism Work for Employees

Hirsch, Jeffrey M. - 2010

The rise of globalism has allowed businesses to expand their chains of production across the world and forced them to compete internationally. This expansion of competition has also extended to the labor market, as workers must now often compete with other workers from around the globe. This...

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Cooperatives in a global economy : key economic issues, recent trends, and potential for development

Smith, Stephen C.; Rothbaum, Jonathan - 2013

In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio-economic issues: the lack of jobs, economic and social inequality, educational mobility, and the priority need for innovations. We present recent data on the amount and types of job...

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Unions and income inequality : a heterogeneous panel cointegration and causality analysis

Herzer, Dierk - 2014

Although a large body of research has examined the effects of unions on the wage distribution, surprisingly little … attention has been devoted to the effects of unions on the distribution of income. This paper examines the long-run relationship …, we find that (i) unions have, on average, a negative long-run effect on income inequality, (ii) there is considerable …

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Awards in Economics - Towards a New Field of Inquiry

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics profession and analyzes the number and type of awards...

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Linking Societal Trust and CEO Compensation

Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran (Giri) - 2016

We examine the association between societal trust and the levels of CEO compensation and the proportion of equity-based compensation of 897 firm-years from 18 countries over the 2007- 2013 period. We find both the levels of CEO compensation as well as the proportion of equity based compensation...

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Regulating Executive Remuneration after the Global Financial Crisis : Common Law Perspectives

Hill, Jennifer G. - 2020

Executive pay has become a regulatory flashpoint of the global financial crisis. In contrast to the traditional non-interventionist approach to executive compensation, it has galvanized regulators around the world to search for effective responses to the perceived problem of executive pay. These...

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Does Longer Duration of Executive Compensation Foster Investment Efficiency?

Regier, Matthias - 2021

In this paper, I examine whether longer duration of executive compensation influences investment decisions. I exploit a regulation designed to foster long-term orientation in executive compensation as an exogenous trigger to lengthen executives' incentive duration. I find that treated firms...

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Explaining the International CEO Pay Gap : Board Capture or Market Driven?

Thomas, Randall S. - 2003

One of the most puzzling aspects of executive compensation is the pay gap that exists between American and foreign Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). Commentators and the financial press have been quick to argue that such differences are the result of high agency costs, or "board capture," a...

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Performance bonuses and effort : evidence from fight night awards in mixed martial arts

Gift, Paul - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 7 (2019) 1/13, pp. 1-11

This paper investigates the role of fight night bonus awards on fighter behavior in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and World Extreme Cage (WEC) fighting mixed martial arts (MMA) promotions. Behavior is analyzed using detailed fighter performance statistics, exploiting variation in...

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