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Handedness and earnings [PDF]

open access: possibleLaterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 2007
We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labour market and, in particular, to earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those of similar high education.
Christopher S. Ruebeck   +2 more
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Earnings Volatility and Earnings Predictability

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
Survey evidence indicates widely held managerial beliefs that earnings volatility is negatively related to earnings predictability. In addition, existing research suggests that earnings volatility is determined by economic and accounting factors, and both of these factors reduce earnings predictability.
Ilia D. Dichev, Vicki Wei Tang
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Earnings Inequality [PDF]

open access: possible, 2015
Inequality has increased considerably in many Western countries over the past decades. When dealing with economic inequality as a research subject the question "inequality of what among whom" arises. Analyses of inequality are typically concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the ...
Peichl, Andreas, Pestel, Nico
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Quarterly Earnings Patterns and Earnings Management

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
This paper investigates whether the pattern of quarterly earnings changes provides a signal of earnings management. We identify firms for which the sign of (seasonal) earnings changes observed in interim quarters reverses in the fourth quarter. We hypothesize that a firm performing poorly in interim quarters may attempt to increase earnings of the ...
Somnath Das   +2 more
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Earnings Management and Earnings Quality

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Abstract Viewing the detection of earnings management from the perspective of a crime scene investigator sheds new light on prior research on earnings management and its close relative, earnings quality. The works of Ball and Shivakumar [2008. Earnings quality at initial public offerings. Journal of Accounting and Economics, in press.] and Teoh et al.
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Earnings Innovations, Earnings Persistence, and Stock Returns

The Journal of Business, 1987
This study designs and implements new tests of the information contained in accounting earnings. The authors examine whether the magnitude of the effect of unexpected earnings on stock returns is (positively) correlated with the presen t value of revisions in expected future earnings derived from a univa riate time-series model.
Kormendi, Roger, Lipe, Robert
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The Magic in Earnings: Economic Earnings versus Accounting Earnings

Financial Analysts Journal, 1980
(1980). The Magic in Earnings: Economic Earnings versus Accounting Earnings. Financial Analysts Journal: Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 19-24.
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Earnings

2022
This chapter examines graduate earnings. It highlights the unequal earning distribution within the graduate labour market and challenges the idea that earnings accurately reflect human capital investment or even perceived productivity. Here it expands on some non-educational factors that fundamentally shape earnings within the graduate labour market.
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