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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena - 2014
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to …
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Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?
Bozhinov, Viktor - 2017
In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 …
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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit
Kneiding, Christoph - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...
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Labor Demand During the Crisis : What Happened in Germany?
Bohachova, Olga - 2011
In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …
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Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments
Kölling, Arnd - 2019
Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed …
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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca - 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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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183
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Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942097
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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