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We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus comparisons reduces satisfaction and subsequent performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if...
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German-speakers would increase only modestly even under the counterfactual scenario of a regionally equal distribution of … immigrants across Germany. -- Enclave ; ethnic concentration ; language proficiency ; immigrants ; instrumental variable ; random …
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rates on real output growth for several European countries, using German interest rates as the instrument. We compare this … policy was more independent of Germany. …
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affect employment. Our strategy detects salient adjustments at the extensive margin for German MNEs. With every percentage … increase in German wages, German MNEs allocate 2,000 manufacturing jobs to Eastern Europe at the extensive margin and 4 …
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This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. -- foreign ownership ; firm survival ; Germany …
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-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much …
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Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to … focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not … sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the physical distance between the foreign parent company and its German …
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The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...
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Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
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From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
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