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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?
Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2020
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...
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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …
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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? : the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498651
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What does codetermination do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management … that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that codetermination has zero or very small positive effects on worker … codetermination laws using novel cross-country event studies exploiting a series of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010 …
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Labor in the boardroom
Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Heining, Jörg - 2019
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
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Private protection against crime when property value is private information
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2012
This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private …, suboptimal investment can occur when observable precautions communicate information about property value to potential offenders …
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Migration policy : lessons from cooperatives
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation certificate. In exchange, the immigrants may enter the country of choice without danger. The revenue goes to the country of the recipient nation rather than to human smugglers....
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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan (contributor);  … - 2008
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The incidence and outcomes of industrial action: new evidence from the 2019 European company survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....
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