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Who Among White Collar Workers Has an Opportunity for Phased Retirement? : Establishment Characteristics
Grace-Martin, Karen; Hutchens, Robert M. - 2004
Utilizing a new survey of employers, this paper examines how and why establishments differ in their willingness to permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains with his or her employer while gradually reducing work...
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Threshold Effects of Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany
Verick, Sher - 2004
In this paper we use a reform in the applicability of the Protection Against Dismissal Act or Kündigungsschutzgesetz in Germany to identify employment effects of the legislation for small establishments. Using a panel of establishments for the period 1997-2001, we find some evidence that a...
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Too Big To Fail: Ein gordischer Knoten für die Finanzmarktaufsicht?
Kellermann, Kersten - 2010
Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden wesentlichen Merkmale eines Too Big To Fail (TBTF) Regimes diskutiert. Hierunter wird ein politisches Umfeld verstanden, in dem grosse, systemrelevante Finanzinstitute durch staatliche Massnahmen vor der Insolvenz gerettet werden. Das TBTF Regime rechtfertigt sich...
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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
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Do Organizational Forms matter? An Econometric Analysis of Innovativeness in the German Wastewater Sector
Tauchmann, Harald; Clausen, Hartmut - 2004
In the German wastewater sector, innovations are often regarded to be the key to both more efficient service provision and reduction of environmental and health-related problems. However, it is unclear what factors foster these innovations. One possible candidate factor is increased competition...
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Relevanz, Qualität und Determinanten der externen Unternehmenspublizität zum Humankapital: Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme der HDAX-Unternehmen
Knauer, Thorsten - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 24 (2010) 3, pp. 205-230
Theorie und Unternehmenspraxis weisen auf die hohe Relevanz des Humankapitals für den Unternehmenserfolg hin. Investitionen in die Ressource Mensch werden im Jahresabschluss allerdings mit wenigen Ausnahmen als Aufwendungen erfasst. Das Humankapital ist somit nicht als Vermögensgegenstand in...
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When and why do Austrian companies issue shares?
Burgstaller, Johann - 2005
This paper examines the issuance of share capital via the Vienna Stock Exchange between 1985 and 2004. Evidence is supplied concerning the aggregate factors that explain the time-series variation in both the numbers of and proceeds from initial public offerings (IPOs) and seasoned equity...
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Personalistische Aktiengesellschaft
Otte, Jana - 2004
Die Aktiengesellschaft ist eine Gesellschaft mit eigener Rechtspersönlichkeit, deren Grundkapital in Aktien zerlegt ist … ist daher verständlich, dass die Gesellschafter eines personalistischen Unternehmens der Rechtsform der Aktiengesellschaft … interessant sein, sich für die Rechtsform der Aktiengesellschaft zu entscheiden. Im Folgenden sind zunächst die Begriffe des …
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Determinanten der Aktionärspräsenz auf Hauptversammlungen deutscher Aktiengesellschaften
Linge, Philipp; Theissen, Erik - 2008
We analyze the determinants of shareholder participation in the annual shareholders' meeting using a sample of 126 listed German corporations over the period 2004-2006. Participation depends (unsurprisingly) on the ownership structure: it is negatively related to the fraction of voting equity...
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Corporate governance in transition: Ten empirical findings on shareholder value and industrial relations in Germany
Höpner, Martin - 2001
Within the context of debates over national varieties of capitalism, this paper discusses the shareholder value orientation of the 40 largest listed German companies. Three dimensions of shareholder value are distinguished: the communicative dimension, the operative dimension and the dimension...
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