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Say pays! : shareholder voice and firm performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414206
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Ary Lans (contributor);  … - 2008
. Third, and most importantly, making shareholders the ultimate owner of the firm provides the best possible diversification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747647
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Labor market policy : a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
I review theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779856
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The gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ of the European Union
Christofidēs, Loizos N.; Polycarpou, Alexandros; … - 2010
We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The size of the gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and...
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961664
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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data
Fuchs, Thomas (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002351779
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793899
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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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The unexpected appearance of a new German model
Eichhorst, Werner - 2012
inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing … work force and increasing use of non-standard types of employment in less specifically skilled occupations. -- Germany …
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