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Worker directors : a German product that didn't export?

Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2009

representation ; firm performance ; Germany …

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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? : a panel data analysis for 1977 - 2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypotheses in … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …

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Short-time work and precautionary savings

Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2021

In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries use short-time work schemes (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. We build a New Keynesian model with...

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Labor in the boardroom

Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Heining, Jörg - 2019

study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

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Ownership or performance : what determines board of directors' turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 2000

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...

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Legal corruption, politically connected corporate governance and firm performance

Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Švejnar, Jan - 2014

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market

Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...

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CEO stress, aging, and death

Borgschulte, Mark; Guenzel, Marius; Liu, Canyao; … - 2023

We assess the long-term effects of managerial stress on aging and mortality. First, we show that exposure to industry distress shocks during the Great Recession produces visible signs of aging in CEOs. Applying neural-network based machine-learning techniques to pre- and post-distress pictures,...

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Wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands 1999 - 2003

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Kriechel, Ben (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within...

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