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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; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Atypical Work and Employment Continuity
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets – the CAEAS and the NLSY79 – we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather...
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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work, have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow workers to locate suitable job matches. Exploiting data from all four Contingent and Alternative...
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Mergers of Equals and Unequals
Smeets, Valerie; Ierulli, Kathryn; Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of conflict between employees from the two merging firms. Such conflict can arise for several reasons, including firm-specific human capital, corporate culture, power, or...
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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?
Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...
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Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?
Margolis, David N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential or Non-Sequential Search?
van Ommeren, Jos; Russo, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job...
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Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching
Pellizzari, Michele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
' recruitment practices, shows that more intensive recruitment leads to matches of better quality that pay higher wages, last longer …
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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...
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Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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