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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959682
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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822140
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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Hethey-Maier, Tanja; Schmieder, Johannes F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700691
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Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency …. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546984
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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592859
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Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender
Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are underrepresented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762168
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands
Praag, Mirjam van; Cools, Kees - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompeting explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762239
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component … effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … blue and white-collar jobs, we find that social capital only affects the probability of getting a white-collar job. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990925
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884175
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The Divorce Revolution and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the United States 1973-2010
Viitanen, Tarja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
General Social Survey from 1973-2010. The easier divorce culture is defined as the introduction of no-fault including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884339