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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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The micro-foundations of employment systems : an empirical case study of Britain and France

Amossé, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Petit, Héloïse - 2023

Building on existing studies of national employment systems, we take a multi-dimensional approach to comparative employment relations where the national level remains meaningful but which emphasises within-country dynamics and heterogeneity. Analysing nationally representative workplace surveys...

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Reforms and productivity dynamics in Chinese state-owned enterprises

McGoldrick, Peter (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Public-private employment choice, wage differentials and gender in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Retained state shareholding in Chinese PLCs : does government ownership reduce corporate value?

Tian, Lihui (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China's newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find...

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Firm ownership and rent sharing

Monteiro, Natália Pimenta; Portela, Miguel; Straume, … - 2010

We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes...

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2012

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian,...

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The determinants of rural migrants' employment choice in China : results from a joint estimation

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...

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Public, private or both? : analysing factors influencing the labour supply of medical specialists

Cheng, Terence Chai; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2013

This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterised by the number of working...

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Asset stripping, rule of law and firm survival : the Hoff-Stiglitz model and mass privatization in Montenegro

Koman, Matjaž; Lakičević, Milan; Prašnikar, Janez; … - 2013

We provide the first test of the Hoff and Stiglitz (2004) model predicting whether and under what conditions mass privatizations are accompanied by asset stripping. In addition to directly testing the theory, we also tackle an important policy-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient...

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