This paper studies the impact of gender quotas for corporate board seats on corporate decisions. We examine the introduction of Norway's 2006 quota, comparing affected firms to other Nordic companies, public and private, that were unaffected by the rule. We find that affected firms undertook...

The literature on enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa provides evidence that there are significant differences between companies run by members of the majority population and those run by members of minorities. Differences are frequently related to size, age, and certain success indicators....

This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...

Management companies assign some portfolio managers to run funds within a single investment objective, specialists, and others to run funds across several investment objectives, generalists. Our results show that funds achieve higher performance when they appoint superior pickers as specialists...

Im deutschen Sprachraum gab es Unterschiede im Umgang mit dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs auf der Schwelle zur Professur. In Deutschland war in der Regel ein externer Ruf nötig, in Österreich konnte man durch Pragmatisierung oder Hausruf an der eigenen Universität verbleiben und in Schweiz...

This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps...

In this study, we conduct interview surveys on management practices in Japanese and Korean firms following the study of Bloom, and Van Reenen (2007). The average management scores in Japanese firms are higher than those in Korean firms, and human resource management is positively associated with...