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Labor-friendly corporate practices : is what is good for employees good for shareholders?

Faleye, Olubunmi; Trahan, Emery Anthony - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 101 (2011) 1, pp. 1-27

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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave : An Exploratory Study

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these questions. These include the BLS-Employee Benefit Survey (EBS) for 2010 to 2018 and an extensive firm-level data collection...

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An Anatomy of U.S. Firms Seeking Trademark Registration

Dinlersoz, Emin M. - 2018

This paper reports on the construction of a new dataset that combines data on trademark applications and registrations from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with data on firms from the U.S. Census Bureau. The resulting dataset allows tracking of various activity related to trademark use and...

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Is Pollution Value-Maximizing? The DuPont Case

Shapira, Roy - 2017

DuPont, one of the most respectable U.S. companies, caused environmental damage that ended up costing the company around a billion dollars. By using internal company documents disclosed in trials we rule out the possibilities that this bad outcome was due to ignorance, an unexpected realization,...

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Are U.S. Companies Too Short-Term Oriented? Some Thoughts

Kaplan, Steven N. - 2017

U.S. companies are often criticized for being overly short-term oriented. This paper documents that those criticisms have a long history, going back at least thirty-five years. The paper then considers the implications of sustained short-termism for corporate profits, venture capital investments...

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What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders

Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Ramella, Pietro; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

find goal announcements are associated with management's responses to the firm's (possibly changed) circumstances, with the … changing power and preferences of key constituencies, as well as from management's attempts to deflect scrutiny. While … announced opportunistically to deflect attention and alleviate pressure on management …

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Private Sanctions

Hart, Oliver D.; Thesmar, David; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We survey a representative sample of the U.S. population to understand stakeholders' desire to see their firms exit Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. 61% of respondents think that firms should exit Russia, regardless of the consequences. Only 37% think that leaving Russia is a purely...

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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

Collins, William J. - 2003

African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...

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Professional accountancy organizations and stock market development

Huang, Hong; Kong, Xiangting; Tsang, Albert - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 157 (2019) 1, pp. 231-260

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The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution : How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

on preschool blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to education data for all students in North Carolina public schools. We …

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