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Institutionelle Determinanten der Erwerbsarbeit : zur Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Holst, Elke - 2001
-types and (3) explicit rules of behavior manifested in the legislation of a state. The last point is exemplified by the case of …
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Uncertainty of law and the legal process
Dari-Mattiacci, Guiseppe; Deffains, Bruno - 2005
There is extensive literature on whether courts or legislators produce efficient rules, but which of them produces rules efficiently? The law is subject to uncertainty ex ante; uncertainty makes the outcomes of trials difficult to predict and deters parties from settling disputes out of court. In...
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Hold your fire! : influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the US
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
Objective: This paper considers the influence of female legislators on gun legislation across US states. Females have … econometrically estimate the drivers of gun legislation across US states. The dependent variables are alternately the total number of … used. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that, when it comes to gun legislation and female legislator representation, it …
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Attraktivität junger Unternehmen für Fachkräfte
Icks, Annette; Kranzusch, Peter; Schneck, Stefan; … - 2016
Die Arbeitgeberattraktivität wird nicht durch das Unternehmensalter beein-flusst. Von den jungen Unternehmen, die in den vergangenen fünf Jahren Fachkräfte suchten, hatte über die Hälfte Schwierigkeiten bei der Fachkräfteakquise. Werben die Unternehmen mit Arbeitsplatzmerkmalen wie...
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Fördert sportliche Aktivität den beruflichen Aufstieg?
Müller, Michael - 2016
Eine höhere Entlohnung von sportlich aktiveren Arbeitnehmern konnte in den letzten Jahren bereits mehrfach nachgewiesen werden. Diese wurde u. a. auf eine höhere Durchsetzungsfähigkeit sowie auf bessere soziale Fähigkeiten zurückgeführt. In diesem Beitrag wird mit Daten des...
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The core of the global corporate network
Giglio, Ricardo; Lux, Thomas - 2016
We investigate the network topology of a comprehensive data set of the world-wide population of corporate entities. In particular, we have extracted information on the boards of all companies listed in Bloomberg's archive of company profiles in October, 2015, a total of almost 100; 000 firms. We...
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The strength of the weakest link : sickness absence, internal substitutability and worker-firm matching
Hensvik, Lena; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2015
We study how employee sickness absence affects worker-firm matching. We build on the idea that firms are sensitive to absence in jobs with few substitutes (unique positions). Consistent with this, we show that unique employees are less absent conditional on individual characteristics,...
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Disentangling managerial incentives from a dynamic perspective : the role of stock grants
Hili, Amal; Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van - 2016
We analyze the optimal contract between a risk-averse manager and the initial shareholders in a two-period model where the manager's investment effort, carried out in period 1, and her current effort, carried out in period 2, both impact the second-period profit, so that it may be difficult to...
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Envy and compassion in tournaments
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002
Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous inequity (envy) and advantageous inequity (compassion)....
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