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Gender differences in rates of job dismissal: Why are men more likely to lose their jobs?
Wilkins, Roger; Wooden, Mark - 2011
Empirical studies have consistently reported that rates of involuntary job separation, or dismissal, are significantly … of detailed investigation. In this paper, household panel survey data from Australia are used that also find higher … dismissal rates among men than among women. This differential, however, largely disappears once controls for industry and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282258
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Trade union membership and dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274709
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274767
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The value relevance of top executive departures: evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Kees; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276315
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Job displacement costs of phasing out coal
Rud, Juan Pablo; Simmons, Michael; Toews, Gerhard; … - 2022
The reduction of carbon emissions will require a rapid phasing out of coal and the displacement of millions of coal miners. How much could this energy transition cost mining workers? We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480458
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600966
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"Algorithm breakers" are not a different "species": Attitudes towards trade unions of Deliveroo riders in Belgium
Vandaele, Kurt; Piasna, Agnieszka; Drahokoupil, Jan - 2019
This working paper investigates a rare case of platform work performed in the realm of regulated employment and explores the attitudes of platform workers towards collective representation. The argument is developed that workers' attitudes and their propensity to engage in collective action can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565862
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Corporate Hierarchies and the Size of Nations: Theory and Evidence
Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2006
Corporate organization varies within a country and across countries with country size. The paper starts by establishing some facts about corporate organization based on unique data of 660 Austrian and German corporations. The larger country (Germany) has larger firms with flatter more decentral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427472
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292150
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Age, period and cohort effects on migration of the baby boomers in Australia
Sander, Nikola; Bell, Martin - 2012
effects. This paper focuses on inter-cohort differences in the intensity and pattern of internal migration in Australia, while … Australian baby boom compared to the US. The baby boom in Australia was delayed and much smaller in terms of absolute and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352566