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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
Chi, Wei - 2010
This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...
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Class Struggle Inside the Firm : A Study of German Codetermination
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
German system of codetermination,' a governance system under which employees are allocated some control rights over corporate … assets by law. Codetermination laws require that employees be represented on the (supervisory) board of directors. If … codetermination sufficiently empowers employees, and if stockholders' rights cannot be contractually protected, then employees may …
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
We estimate the wage effects of shared governance, or codetermination, in the form of a mandate of one third of … analogous difference in unaffected firm types (LLCs). We find no effects of board-level codetermination on wages and the wage …
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The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and its Effects on Firms and Workers
Freeman, Richard B.; Kleiner, Morris M.; Ostroff, Cheri - 2021
A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...
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How to Compete : The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity
Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2021
Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine the impact of workplace practices, information technology...
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Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations
Appelbaum, Eileen; Hunter, Larry W. - 2021
This paper reviews workforce participation in strategic decisions - those that affect the basic direction of the company - when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We consider the problem of corporate governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic...
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The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan
Kato, Takao - 2022
Using both quantitative data from national surveys and qualitative data from our own field research, this paper provides evidence on changes in participatory employment practices in Japan during the economic slowdown in the 1990s. Overall, consistent with the complementarity of such practices...
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Monetary Policy and Asset Prices : A Look Back at Past U.S. Stock Market Booms
Bordo, Michael D. - 2011
This paper examines the economic environments in which past U.S. stock market booms occurred as a first step toward understanding how asset price booms come about and whether monetary policy should be used to defuse booms. We identify several episodes of sustained rapid rise in equity prices in...
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The U.S. Left Behind : The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World
Doidge, Craig - 2011
During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO activity, attributed to better institutions and governance, used to be a strength of the U.S., it no longer is. IPO activity in the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world...
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The Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on the Income Repatriation Patterns of U.S. Multinational Corporations
Altshuler, Rosanne - 2011
U.S. corporations owe taxes to the U.S. Treasury on income earned both inside and outside American borders. This paper examines the incentives created by the U.S. tax system for the legal avoidance of taxes on foreign source income. Using data from 1986 corporate tax returns, we investigate the...
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