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Cash‐flows, earnings, and time‐varying expected stock returns

Eugene Simlai, Prodosh - In: Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences 29 (2013) 1, pp. 42-62

earnings momentum portfolios. It aims to examine whether the common risk factors, which are related to firm level accounting … characteristics, can reflect the behavior of average portfolio returns based on such measures as cash‐flows and earnings momentum in … July 1951 and June 2008. It investigates the interdependence of stock returns for cash‐flows and earnings momentum …

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Sexual orientation discrimination in the Cypriot labour market. Distastes or uncertainty?

Drydakis, Nick - In: International Journal of Manpower 35 (2014) 5, pp. 720-744

Purpose – Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus by implementing an experiment for the period 2010-2011. The design is aimed at answering three main questions. Do gay males and lesbians face occupational access constraints and entry wage bias than comparable...

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Adjustment Costs and Irreversibility as Determinants of Investment: Evidence from African Manufacturing

Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2005) 1, pp. 1-27

In this paper we investigate if the predictions of three different models of capital adjustment costs are consistent with the observed investment patterns among manufacturing firms in five African countries. We document a high frequency of zero investment episodes, which is consistent with both...

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Explanations for Persistent Nursing Shortages

Long, Mark C; Goldfarb, Marsha G.; Goldfarb, Robert S - In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy 11 (2008) 2

This paper contributes to the economics literature on nursing market shortages by putting forward two new models that suggest three new explanations for perceived nursing shortages. The first model focuses on hospitals hiring both permanent staff nurses and temporary contract nurses. It shows...

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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions / Mehrwertsteuer oder Sozialversicherungsabgaben

Goerke, Laszlo - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 3-4, pp. 308-325

Summary In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by efficiency wages, it is shown that a balanced-budget...

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The efficiency wages perspective to wage rigidity in the open economy: a survey

Stavrevska, Vesna - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) 3, pp. 273-299

Purpose – The purpose of the paper was to establish the implications of globalisation for labour markets when efficiency wages create endogenous wage rigidity and to re‐examine the credibility of the arguments that call for deregulation, more wage flexibility and less social protection in...

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Hard debt, soft CEOs, and union rents

Wilson, Linus - In: Managerial Finance 37 (2011) 8, pp. 736-764

Purpose – This paper aims to derive insights about optimal managerial compensation and firm capital structure in unionized firms. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses applied game theory to address problems of CEO motivation in companies with unionized workforces. Findings –...

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The Impact of Firm Size in the Formulation of Sustainable Manufacturing Strategy Infrastructural Decisions Under Uncertainty

Ocampo, Lanndon - In: International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials, and … 7 (2017) 2, pp. 1-18

This paper adopts a fuzzy analytic network process approach in identifying the impact of the presence of firm size on the content of the manufacturing strategy infrastructural decisions that integrates the classical manufacturing strategy framework and the notion of sustainability. Linguistic...

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Selected Barriers to Online International Trade Within the EU: Could Standards and Common Rules Help?

Orviska, Marta; Hunady, Jan - In: International Journal of Standardization Research (IJSR) 15 (2017) 2, pp. 76-93

This article deals with the problems associated with online international trade, i.e. e-commerce, within the EU. The authors examine the potential barriers to cross-border online selling and online buying with the focus on problems related to standards. The problems associated with...

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Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover

Quintin, Erwan; Stevens, John J. - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 5 (2005) 1

Abstract Labor market outcomes such as turnover and earnings are correlated with employer characteristics, even after …-enhancing activities, and therefore have a steeper earnings-tenure profile. Our model also predicts that quit rates should be lower in …

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