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Labor in the boardroom
Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Heining, Jörg - 2019
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138860
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857903
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Do Supply-Side Education Programmes Work? The Impact of Increased School Supply on Schooling and Wages in Indonesia Revisited
Pettersson Gelander, Gunilla - 2012
differentially from these public investments. It is also desirable to comprehend whether schooling translates into increases in wages … schooling on wages and whether the additional schooling induced by the programme had differential impacts for men and women. To … is found to cause higher wages for men and women and there appears to be an additional positive effect on wages for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096598
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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? Evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state
Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara - 2009
There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271278
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Active labor market policy evaluations: a meta-analysis
Card, David Edward; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2009
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277124
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French enterprise zone program : did it help the residents of deprived neighborhoods?
Charnoz, Pauline - 2014
This paper evaluates the effect of the French enterprise zone program on residents of these deprived neighborhoods. A second contribution is the evaluation of the composition effects in the zones and of externalities on the neighbors of the enterprise zones. The third contribution is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487793
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What works? : a meta analysis of recent active labor market program evaluations
Card, David E.; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea - 2015
We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using meta-analytic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308485
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What works? : a meta analysis of recent active labor market program evaluations
Card, David E.; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea - 2015
We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using meta-analytic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308493
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The economic impact of organized crime infiltration in the legal economy : evidence from the judicial administration of organized crime firms
Calamunci, Francesca; Drago, Francesco - 2020
We analyze the economic consequences on firm profitability, performance, and investments of having another firm in the same market affiliated with a criminal organization. We do so by evaluating the spillover effects of a law providing the judicial administration of organized crime firms through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180534
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Reconsidering the consequences of worker displacements : firm versus worker perspective
Flaaen, Aaron; Shapiro, Matthew D.; Sorkin, Isaac - 2018
Prior literature has established that displaced workers suffer persistent earnings losses by following workers in administrative data after mass layoffs. This literature assumes that these are involuntary separations owing to economic distress. This paper examines this assumption by matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932177