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How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina - 2016

Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...

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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption : Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

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Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis : Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector

Grund, Christian - 2013

extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards … perspective. We also examine that certain parts of managers seem to have more power to influence their compensation than others …. Inequality in managers' compensation decreased during the crisis …

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On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions

Bachan, Ray - 2021

, but are rewarded favourably by increasing the volume of tuition fees. There is some support for 'tournament theory' as an …

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Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile M. - 2021

In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...

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Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

Bingley, Paul - 2018

Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects in individual wage dynamics using administrative data on the population of Italian employers and...

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Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2018

Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an obvious candidate but a recent strand of the literature has emphasized the need to take into account the growing importance of worker composition effects during downturns. With...

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People Versus Machines : The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs

Lordan, Grace - 2018

We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs – jobs in which employers may find it easier to substitute machines for people – focusing on low-skilled workers for whom such substitution may be spurred by minimum wage increases. Based on CPS data from...

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Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules : An Application to Wage Decompositions

Fernández‐Val, Iván - 2018

strategies for estimation. We also provide the associated asymptotic theory. These strategies are illustrated in an empirical …

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Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors

Ransom, Tyler - 2020

I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational choice across locations in the US. To quantify the role of selection, I develop and estimate an extended Roy model of migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon...

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