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We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by the local communities where firms' headquarters are located induces CEOs to refrain from dismissing...
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employment prospects are particularly bad. We evaluate its impact on layoff (firing) as well as on hiring, taking advantage of …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between CEO education, CEO turnover and firm performance. Our primary interest is …,600 cases of CEO turnover from 1993-2007.Our results show that CEO education does not play a large role in the decision by a …
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, indicating an increase in employment turnover. A salient feature of the results is that the estimated effects increase with the …
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are more common in Italy and Spain than in Germany and France, suggesting institutions may be important. We discuss the … implications of our findings in the context of principal-agent theory and the wider literature on turnover among CEOs and other …
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We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by the local communities where firms' headquarters are located induces CEOs to refrain from dismissing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025314
ability. Taking advantage of detailed micro-level panel data from four countries--Britain, Germany, Korea and Switzerland … loss and worker's ability appears only in unionized workers. An exception is Germany, where lower ability workers in both …
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employment prospects are particularly bad. We evaluate its impact on layoff (firing) as well as on hiring, taking advantage of …
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study mass layoff (ML) survivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML themselves, but a few years in the future, as a …
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study mass layoff (ML) survivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML themselves, but a few years in the future, as a …
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