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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms...

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Promiscuous elites and economic development

Brezis, Elise S. - 2012

This paper analyzes the interconnection between elites and its effects on economic growth. For decades, the bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has been termed the revolving door in English, pantouflage in...

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Die Verteilung der Abstimmungsmacht im Bundesrat

Hiller, Tobias; Auer, Benjamin R. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 4, pp. 267-273

Die Stimmanteile der Bundesländer im Bundesrat basieren auf einem Stufenmodell in Abhängigkeit von der Einwohnerzahl. Da die Abstimmungsmacht nicht dem relativen Stimmanteil eines Bundeslands entspricht, analysieren die Autoren die Verteilung der Abstimmungsmacht im Bundesrat mit Hilfe von...

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Conceptualizing power in the context of climate change: A multi-theoretical perspective on structure, agency & power relations

Stör, Lorenz - 2017

, Macht und Herrschaft in ihrem komplexen Zusammenspiel von akteursbezogenem Handeln und strukturellen Faktoren zu begreifen … Aspekte von Macht anhand der klassischen Gegenüberstellung von Struktur und Handlung. Die gängige positivistische … als ein wissenschaftstheoretischer Ansatz, um sowohl Struktur als auch Handlung als Formen der Macht anzuerkennen und zu …

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Stable demands and bargaining power in majority games

Morelli, Massimo - 1998

This paper provides a co-operative as well as a non-cooperative analysis of weighted majority games. The co-operative solution concept introduced here, the Stable Demand Set, yields a meaningful selection within the Mas-Colell Bargaining Set, it contains the Core, it eliminates the "dominated"...

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Modernisierung des Arbeitskampfrechts zu einem Tarifverhandlungsrecht

Rieble, Volker - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 38 (2005) 2/3, pp. 218-229

Judicial decisions concerning industrial action have strengthened the right to strike and made lockouts virtually impossible. Employers respond to such a shift in the power on the labour market with relocations and power on the goods market. In addition the trade unions are threatened by...

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Developing country coalitions in the WTO: Strategies for improving the influenence of the WTO's weakest and poorest members

Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn; Harbourd, Meg - 2011

Small and poor developing countries face well-known structural constraints and power asymmetries in their international economic relations Their limited economic weight often produces pessimism about the prospects for such countries to international trade negotiations. For many developing...

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Trojan multilateralism: Global cooperation in health

Sridhar, Devi Lalita; Woods, Ngaire - 2013

This paper argues that recent global health cooperation has been marked by two trends. First, there has been a highly successful proliferation of vertical funds to fight specific diseases. These are characterised by narrower problem-based mandates; multistakeholder governance; voluntary and...

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Chiefs do not talk law, most of them talk power: Die Macht traditioneller Autoritäten in Konflikten um 'land grabbing' in Ghana

Kirst, Sarah - 2017

Konflikten um das agrarindustrielle Projekt ScanFarm in Ghana. Ich gehe der Frage nach, inwiefern die Macht traditioneller … internalisierten Macht. Die Gruppe traditioneller Autoritäten, die für die Verwaltung von Land zuständig sind, ist durch Heterogenität …

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Innovation and precarity: Workplace discourse in twenty-first century capitalism

Rothstein, Sidney A. - 2019

This paper analyzes discourse in the workplace in order to explain puzzling patterns of precarity in twenty-first century capitalism. Tech workers' central role in digital transformation endows them with labor market power reflected by their high wages, but during economic downturns, when demand...

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