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finds that good consultation and communication at the local level are associated with lower absenteeism. It also finds that …
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finds that good consultation and communication at the local level are associated with lower absenteeism. It also finds that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746653
This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...
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We examine the distribution of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities when sectors are divided into three groups: one that produces goods without home substitutes and two others that have home substitutes — health and social work, and all others....
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monitoring devices and piece-rates. We find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are less likely to offer explicit … incentives. They are also less likely to invest in monitoring devices. We also find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are …
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firms and banks are subject to moral hazard and monitoring is essential. Multiple-bank lending is optimal whenever the … benefit of greater diversification in terms of higher monitoring dominates the costs of free-riding and duplication of efforts … less profitable, and poor financial integration, regulation and inefficient judicial systems increase monitoring costs …
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This paper shows how separation of ownership and control may arise as a response to overload costs, despite agency costs, and how conglomerates arise as solution to information asymmetries in capital markets. In a context where entrepreneurs have the ability to run projects and improve their...
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When a firm has external debt and monitoring by shareholders is essential, managerial bonuses are shown to be an … shareholders, but also between creditors and monitoring shareholders. A negative relation between corporate bond yields and …
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capital. Particularly, we analyse such incentives and monitoring under employee ownership and capitalist ownership. In our … show that the workers’ investment and expected income are higher and the monitoring intensity is lower in an employee …’s reservation wage decreases, as the monitoring cost or as the productivity uncertainty increases. Most of our results are …
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We present a model of efficient contracting with endogenous matching and limited monitoring in which firms compete for … CEOs. The model explains the association between limited monitoring and CEO pay practices such as pay-for-luck, high … matching equilibrium: firms with different capacities for monitoring hire different types of CEOs and offer different …
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