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Too Much of a Good Thing? Exporters, Multiproduct Firms and Labor Market Imperfections
Eckel, Carsten - 2017
high productivity. In this paper we show that if firms can invest in management technologies for identifying worker skill …
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Venture Capital's "Me Too" Moment
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Sweeney, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring...
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The Demand for Executive Skills
Hansen, Stephen; Ramdas, Tejas; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...
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Discretion in Hiring
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2015
Job testing technologies enable firms to rely less on human judgement when making hiring decisions. Placing more weight on test scores may improve hiring decisions by reducing the influence of human bias or mistakes but may also lead firms to forgo the potentially valuable private information of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456961
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The Market for CEOs : Evidence from Private Equity
Gompers, Paul A.; Kaplan, Steven N.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Most research on the CEO labor market studies public company CEOs while largely ignoring CEOs in private equity (PE) funded companies. We fill this gap by studying the market for CEOs among U.S. companies purchased by PE firms in large leveraged buyout transactions. 71% of those companies hired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537791
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CEO Turnover and Foreign Market Participation
Blonigen, Bruce - 2003
Anecdotal evidence suggests that new CEOs with foreign backgrounds direct their firms to become more international in their operations. We examine this hypothesis formally using data on U.S. S&P-500 manufacturing firms from 1992 through 1997 and biographical information on CEOs' birth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469175
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Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers
Guillouet, Louise; Khandelwal, Amit; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
(DMs) who supervise production workers. Language barriers between FMs and DMs could impede transfers of management … knowledge. We develop a model in which DMs learn general management by communicating with FMs, but communication effort is non … their FMs, are more involved in firm management, and perform better in simulated management tasks. Organizational barriers …
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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774896
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Foreign direct investment
Froot, Kenneth (ed.) - 1993
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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...
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