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Globalization, creative destruction, and labor share change: Evidence on the determinants and mechanism from longitudinal plant-level data

Maliranta, Mika; Böckerman, Petri - 2009

We examine the sources and micro-level mechanisms of the changes in the labor share of value added. We link the micro-level dynamics of the labor share change with that of productivity and wage growth. Using a useful variant of the decomposition method we make a distinction between the change in...

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Diagnosing discrimination: stock returns and CEO gender

Wolfers, Justin - 2006

, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would require … data on productivity, on the preferences of those who interact with managers, and on perceptions of productivity. Financial …

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Globalization and the emergence of a transnational oligarchy

Brezis, Elise S. - 2010

The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century … recruitment may actually lead to class stratification and auto-recruitment. In this paper, I show that due to globalization, the … their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best being chosen, we show that meritocratic …

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The glass door: The gender composition of newly-hired workers across hierarchical job levels

Hassink, Wolter H.J.; Russo, Giovanni - 2010

This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We find that women have a reduced chance to be hired at higher hierarchical levels. We refer to this phenomenon as the glass door. The glass door consists of an absolute and a...

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Rent sharing and gender discrimination in collegiate athletics

Lackner, Mario; Zulehner, Christine - 2013

and interpret coaches as top-level managers or chief executive officers (CEOs).The causal link between market power and …

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The Wage Premium of Foreign Ownership: Evidence from European Mergers and Acquisitions

Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-21, pp. 1-27

The authors provide evidence on the impact of foreign ownership on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically owned firms. For this purpose, they use firm-level data from 16 European countries over the time period 19992006. Combing propensity score...

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