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Severance Pay and Corporate Finance : Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Llp, Watson Wyatt Wyatt, Watson |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt of the employer and hence should be taken into account by the market in its assessments of risk. Using a hand collected dataset of accounting data from Italy and Austria we find there is only a limited relationship between severance pay and market risk indicators. This suggests that arguments that severance pay systems destroy corporate value may need to be reassessed. JEL Classification: J65, J32, G39 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ftp.iza.org/dp1383.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
