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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China: evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2005
This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive compensation and ownership structure, we find for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267302
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Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307462
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532
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Enterprise restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipas, Igor; … - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267876
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566810
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipas, Igor; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761783
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The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2017
The relation between rent sharing and wages has generally been evaluated on average wages. This paper uses a unique employer-employee panel database to investigate the extent of rent sharing along the wage distribution in Italy. We apply quantile regression techniques and control for national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653298
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Rent sharing as a driver of the glass ceiling effect
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2012
In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289885
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Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721289