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Location choice and employment decisions : a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals
Becker, Sascha; Ekholm, Karolina; Jaeckle, Robert; … - 2005
affiliates located in CEE. A one percent larger wage gap between Sweden and CEE is estimated to be associated with 140 fewer jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002572124
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Management incentives under formula apportionment : tax-induced distortions of effort and compensation in a principal-agent setting
Martini, Jan T.; Niemann, Rainer; Simons, Dirk - 2014
compensation to managers in low-tax jurisdictions, if payroll enters the FA formula. Managers in high-tax jurisdictions face the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383849
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Expatriate managers : effects on firm performance
Koren, Miklós; Telegdy, Álmos - 2024
Using a novel Hungarian dataset on firms and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), we estimate the impact of hiring expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition...
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580556
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Social interaction and sickness absence
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635259
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz (contributor); Lundqvist, Heléne (contributor) - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771859
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'Large' vs. 'small' players : a closer look at the dynamics of speculative attacks
Bjønnes, Geir H.; Holden, Steinar; Rime, Dagfinn; … - 2009
players moved early. Interest rates did not increase in Sweden so there was little to gain by a delayed attack. -- Speculative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806083
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Vacancy referrals, job search, and the duration of unemployment : a randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808141
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The rise in female employment and the role of tax incentives : an empirical analysis of the Swedish individual tax reform of 1971
Selin, Håkan - 2009
Sweden reached the 2007 OECD average level of female labor force participation already in 1974. Before, but not after … employment in Sweden in the beginning of the 1970’s. Simulations suggest that employment among married women would have been 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850130
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
Sweden. I find interesting differences and similarities in the firms’ strategies in terms of how they responded to these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850304