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find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure …
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who are hired last, are the first to leave the firm. Second, workers’ wages rise with seniority (= a worker’s tenure … the return to seniority because seniority is not a deterministic function of time. Controlling for tenure, the probability … of leaving the firm decreases with seniority. The increase in expected seniority with tenure explains a large part of the …
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having a legislator with longer tenure, holding constant the tenure of other legislators. However, the implications of this … literature for how the total production of legislation changes if all members gained seniority is less clear. Increased levels … and dispersion of seniority within Congress generate a cartel-like effect, whereby legislators restrict the quantity of …
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performance evaluation are institutionspecific. For example, the number of years of service required before a tenure decision can …This paper considers issues pertaining to accounting faculty performance evaluation as it is generally applied in the … United States. How performance is evaluated is a question of interest to all stakeholders in the enterprise of accounting …
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In two unrelated papers, we examine different aspects of mutual fund performance and otherissues. In the first chapter …, we look at exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and how they differ fromindex funds in performance and tracking error. Using … index less well.In the second chapter, we look at the differences in performance and characteristics of mutualfunds as they …
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In two unrelated papers, we examine different aspects of mutual fund performance and other issues. In the first chapter …, we look at exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and how they differ from index funds in performance and tracking error. Using … their index less well. In the second chapter, we look at the differences in performance and characteristics of mutual funds …
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To examine the market response to positive revelations of chief executive officer (CEO) quality, this study focuses on CEOs who withdraw acquisition bids when the price becomes increasingly expensive. Firms that withdrawal for price-related reasons earn higher withdrawal returns than firms that...
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Presents change in the flower-growing industry in Colombia since 1965. Estimates the employment generated by sector and discusses some of its main characteristics. Addresses questions relating to types of labour contracts.
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The market is a place where people behave quite relentlessly. If one person is selling a particular commodity at a higher price than others, no one will buy that commodity from him, however virtuous or merciful he is known to be. Of course, the actual world does not always work exactly in this...
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