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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

CEO pay. Second, family CEOs record 8% fewer working hours relative to professional CEOs. The difference in hours worked …

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Span of Control and Span of Activity

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on … measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates and functions, the time …, less time on unplanned activities. The presence of a delegate, such as the COO, allows the CEO to reduce the time spent …

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In brief: UK chief executives: paid for performance?

Bell, Brian; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

% increase in firm value is associated with an increase of 3% in CEO pay but only 0.2% in average workers' pay. Falls in firm … performance are also followed by CEO pay cuts and significantly more CEO firings. This is essentially a result of the …

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Sexism at work

Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Women have, on average, been less well-paid than men throughout history. Prior to 1900, most economic historians see the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900....

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Team performance and the optimal spread of talent

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Alex Bryson and colleagues use US baseball data to investigate whether performance suffers if there is too wide a gap between the skills of a team's stars and the rest.

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Productivity Spreads, Market Power Spreads and Trade

Martin, Ralf - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Much of recent Trade theory focuses on heterogeneity of firms and the differential impact trade policy might have on firms with different levels of productivity. A common problem is that most firm level dataset do not contain information on output prices of firms which makes it difficult to...

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Trade Union Membership and Influence 1999-2009

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper analyses the continued decline of trade unions in Britain and examines the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. Membership of trade unions declined precipitously in the 1980s and 1990s. The rate of decline has slowed in the most recent decade, but we...

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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...

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The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

Steinwender, Claudia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets, other papers stress the...

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Import Competition from and Outsourcing to China: A Curse or Blessing for Firms?

Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We use Belgian manufacturing firm-level data over the period 1996- 2007 to analyze the impact of imports from different origins on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish between firm-level...

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