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The Productivity Effects of Privatization in Ukraine: Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data, 1989–2005

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

the data is used to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. The data …This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … imply steadily increasing MFP as a result of domestic privatization, reaching about 25 percent relative to state-owned firms …

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …

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Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Vladimir - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 …This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … national probability sample of Ukrainian households. Detailed worker characteristics are used to control for compositional …

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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance

Cunat, Vicente; Gine, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013

This paper estimates the effect of increasing shareholder “voice” in corporations through a new governance rule that provides shareholders with a regular vote on pay: Say on Pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to Say on Pay shareholder proposals to deal with prior expectations...

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Complementarity and Custom in Contract Violation

Earle, John S.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

We analyze a model of wage delay in which strategic complementarity arises because each employer's costs of violating its contracts decrease with the arrears in its labor market. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification through fixed...

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Knowledge Work and Organisational Learning

Elkjær, Bente - Copenhagen Business School - 2000

In this paper it is argued that the terms, knowledge work, knowledge workers, and knowledge intensive firms point to emerging social structures and processes in organisations. This focus allows us to analyse organisations in ways that differ from the notions involving less dynamic forms of...

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Pensionsafkastbeskatning og optimal porteføljesammensætning

Bhatti, Jonas Aziz; Møller, Michael - Copenhagen Business School - 2002

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The Value and Incentives of Option-based Compensation in Danish Listed Companies

Bechmann, Ken L.; Jørgensen, Peter Løchte - Copenhagen Business School - 2003

Over the last decade the Danish corporate environment has experienced a significant increase in the use of option-based compensation (OBC). This and many other facts are documented in the present paper which provides the first insights into the characteristics of the option and warrant contracts...

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Bestyrelsessammensætning og finansiel performance i danske børsnoterede virksomheder

Rose, Casper - Copenhagen Business School - 2004

Abstract: This article presents an empirical analysis of board composition and financial performance using a unique sample of Danish listed firms. In 2002, a group consisting of four prominent business leaders formulated Denmark’s own code of good corporate governance, entitled the Nørby...

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