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Do Female Directors Protect Employee Pension Benefits? Evidence on the Nexus Between Pensions and Dividends

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether female directors influence firms' allocation of internal funds between dividend payments and defined benefit (DB) pension funding. Using FTSE All‐Share firms from 2007 to 2021, we find that companies with a higher proportion of female directors exhibit stronger pension funding positions and, overall, maintain ...
Zezeng Li, Erhan Kilincarslan
wiley   +1 more source

Employment Protection and Bank Dividends: Evidence From Wrongful Discharge Laws

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the staggered adoption of the good faith exception to U.S. wrongful discharge laws, we examine the causal effect of employment protection and firing costs on bank dividend payouts. We find stronger employment protection significantly reduces dividends, with good faith adoption lowering payouts by 7% relative to the mean. In line with the
Alessio Bongiovanni, Joshua Cave
wiley   +1 more source

Reply to: Investing in equitable healthy aging: Why Africa must reform social pension schemes to improve Alzheimer's disease and dementia outcomes. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Prynn JE, Walsh S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
wiley   +1 more source

Importance of work-related factors for post-retirement labour market participation. [PDF]

PLoS One
Polvinen A, Tenhunen S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does infrastructure shape rural development? Using household panel data from a nationally representative sample of Chinese villages, matched to high‐resolution highway maps, we find that road expansion between 2000 and 2015 operates mainly through reallocation, with less productive farmers scaling down or exiting and more productive ...
Lin Ma, Yuan Mei, Qunfeng Wu, Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Change in population structure, policy adjustment, and China's public pension sustainability. [PDF]

PLoS One
Fan W, Meng J, Yang H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Auditability in the Digital Age

International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this Perspective essay, I offer some provocations about the future of auditing. I suggest that auditing is currently undergoing technological change in its practice unlike any other in its history in which notions of evidence and auditability have become fluid.
Michael Power
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of disability pension following sickness absence in French private-sector employees. [PDF]

Eur J Public Health
Ben Halima MA, Aït Bouziad K, Louati N, Cousin-Renié MA, Dab W.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing the Employee Welfare Impact of Right‐To‐Work Laws: Insights From State‐Level Legislation

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the effect of right‐to‐work (RTW) laws on employee welfare using the stacked difference‐in‐differences (DiD) methodology. We posit that RTW laws weaken collective bargaining power, increase free riding, and ultimately reduce employee welfare. We document a significant employee welfare decline following RTW adoption, especially among
Shima Amini, Eilnaz Kashefi‐Pour, Ali Sajjadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source