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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
. Overall, our analysis suggests that corporate governance in Ukraine operates with a certain degree of efficiency, despite the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103255
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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822646
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762003
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, David J.; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763506
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the …This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and … Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703252
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Rhineland Exit?
Bovenberg, Lans; Teulings, Coen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822066
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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822452
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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Chaebols in Korea: Evidence from New Panel Data
Kato, Takao; Kim, Woochan; Lee, Ju Ho - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822774
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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959767