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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
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Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on CEO turnover, ownership structure and board characteristics, we estimate Logit models of CEO turnover. We find consistently for all performance measures including both stock...
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This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive compensation and ownership structure, we find for...
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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours...
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We … use two different measures to identify the gender composition of the top layer based on direct survey data: the fraction …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …
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We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...
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measures of workplace performance (financial performance, labour productivity and product or service quality) and employee …
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