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Working in family firms : less paid but more secure? ; evidence from French matched employer-employee data
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - 2011
We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gap is due to differences in...
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Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?
Margolis, David N. (contributor) - 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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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...
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Free-riding and knowledge spillovers in teams : the role of social ties
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by friends or teams composed by individuals not linked by friendship relationships. Students...
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Equalizing wage differences and bargaining power : evidence from a panel of French firms
Cahuc, Pierre; Gianella, Christian; Goux, Dominique; … - 2002
In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of firm-level bargaining, along the lines of Manning (1993). In this context, we provide a firm level wage equation that explicitly accounts for firm heterogeneity. This wage equation explains inter-firm wage differentials by differences in labour...
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Long-term effects of unpaid overtime : evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
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Assessing unemployment trap in Belgium using panel data sample selection models
D'Addio, Anna Cristina; DeGreef, Isabelle; Rosholm, Michael - 2002
In this paper we investigate whether unemployment traps exist and are significant in the transition from unemployment into employment in Belgium. In order to assess them, we use panel data sample selection models. Specifically, we estimate a parametric random effects models composed by a wage...
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The simple analytics of job displacement insurance
Parsons, Donald O. - 2016
Job displacement in the U.S. is a serious threat to the earnings of long-tenured workers, through both (i) unemployment spells and (ii) reduced reemployment wages. Although full insurance requires both unemployment benefits and wage insurance, supply difficulties limit actual-loss insurance, and...
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Moral-hazard-free first-best unemployment insurance
Parsons, Donald O. - 2016
Unemployment insurance replacement rates world-wide are well below 100 percent, a fact often attributed to search moral hazard concerns. As Blanchard and Tirole (2008) have illustrated, however, neither search nor layoff moral hazard (firing cost) distortions need arise in first-best insurance...
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The adverse consequences of tournaments : evidence from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative...
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