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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - 2014
, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a … "spinouts": managers of input divisions can start their own firms, making customized inputs formerly provided internally subject … lead to inefficiently low entry. Vertically integrated firms can fight back by hiring managers for their input divisions …
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Managing the Family Firm : Evidence from CEOS at Work
Bandiera, Oriana - 2015
We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...
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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India
Allcott, Hunt - 2014
and producer surplus by five to ten percent, but average productivity losses are significantly smaller because most inputs …
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Business Groups in Canada : Their Rise and Fall, and Rise and Fall Again
Morck, Randall - 2015
Family-controlled pyramidal business groups were important in Canada early in the 20th century, amid rapid catch-up industrialization, but largely gave way to widely held free-standing firms by mid- century. In the 1970s and early 1980s – an era of high inflation, financial reversal,...
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The Riddle of the Great Pyramids
Morck, Randall - 2013
Large pyramidal family controlled business groups are the predominant form of business organization outside America, Britain, Germany, and Japan. Large pyramidal groups comprising dozens, even hundreds, or listed and unlisted firms place the governance of large swathes of many countries' big...
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Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production
Helpman, Elhanan; Grossman, Gene M. - 2021
contracts they can write with suppliers or employees. Our main result concerns the sorting of firms with different productivity …
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2015
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self employment for dry cleaning than other immigrant groups, and...
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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010
We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
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Social Networks and Access to Health Care Among Mexican-Americans
Gresenz, Carole R. - 2007
This research explores social networks and their relationship to access to health care among adult Mexican-Americans. We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) linked to data from the 2000 U.S. Census and other data sources. We analyze multiple measures of access to health...
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Outsourcing When Investments are Specific and Complementary
Lileeva, Alla - 2014
Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing decision can be explained by a simple property rights model. The unique availability of disaggregate information on outputs as well as inputs permits the construction of a very...
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