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Manufacturing Employment and Women's Agency : Evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014
Grogan, Louise - 2022
This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment (RMG) factories in new industrial zones greatly increased....
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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087428
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Why so Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007
Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2013
This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the boards of directors was 12 percent in 2007 and has only slowly increased during the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073855
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Female-Led Firms : Performance and Risk Attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075784
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CEO and Board Characteristics as Determinants of Private Benefits of Control : Evidence from the Russian Stock Exchange
Berezinets, Irina - 2012
This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112769
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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover : The Case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
. Overall, our analysis suggests that corporate governance in Ukraine operates with a certain degree of efficiency, despite the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156404
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The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance : Evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868825
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Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014 : Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects
Muravyev, Alexander - 2016
This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded in the RTS/MICEX/MOEX over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977060
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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Domadenik, Polona - 2014
economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050620
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Performance Effects of Appointing Other Firms' Executive Directors to Corporate Boards : An Analysis of UK Firms
Muravyev, Alexander - 2014
This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a positive relationship between the presence of these...
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