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Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?

Margolis, David N. - 2006

. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in … the short term after takeover than those of the acquiring firm and with the differences between the two types of firms …

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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs : Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?

Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China?s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find...

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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 productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...

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Firm performance and managerial turnover: the case of Ukraine

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - 2009

The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the past performance of firms measured by...

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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno Maria - 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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Working in family firms: Less paid but more secure? Evidence from French matched employer-employee data

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - 2011

We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gap is due to differences in...

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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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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

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the data permit us to track the privatization process and to...

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Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 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...

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Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 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)....

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