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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in …
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Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort to clarify the role of cash flow in examining the impact...
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transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
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While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …
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Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We …We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …
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unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …
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18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in …
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This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on...
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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...
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