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How Are Employers Responding to an Aging Workforce?

Clark, Robert L. - 2020

The American population is aging and changes in the population's age structure are leading to an aging of the nation's workforce. In addition, changes to age specific participation rates are exacerbating the aging of the national labor force. An important challenge for firms and organizations is...

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Local Dividend Clienteles

Becker, Bo - 2009

We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically-varying demand for dividends. Firms...

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Money pills : corporate political activity effect on mergers and acquisitions

Partyka, Raul Beal; Lana, Jeferson; Marcon, Rosilene - In: Management research review 46 (2023) 10, pp. 1364-1387

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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives

Bandiera, Oriana - 2011

We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...

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The Internal Governance of Firms

Acharya, Viral V. - 2009

We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential …

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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …

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