How can today's workforce keep pace with an increasingly competitive global economy? As new technologies rapidly transform the workplace, employee requirements are changing and workers must adapt to different working conditions. This volume compares new evidence on the returns from worker...

We examine earnings management practices of insider controlled firms across twenty-two countries to shed light on the link between consumption of private benefits and earnings management. Insider controlled firms are associated with more earnings management than non-insider controlled firms in...

With more and more State-owned enterprises (SOEs) becoming international investors, SOEs have become the subject of much policymaking concern in a number of major economies. There have been mixed public perceptions towards such investment. Some of these investments are warmly welcomed, while...