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Managers' Mobility, Trade Status, and Wages

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms' international trade status and to what extent this relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a...

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The Effect of Competition on Managers’ Compensation: Evidence From a Quasi-natural Experiment

Fernandes, Ana; Ferreira, Priscila; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the effect of competition on executive compensation. We estimate the effect of increased product market competition on the performance-pay sensitivity of CEOs, and contrast it with the effect for department managers and other workers in the corporation. We use a recent reform...

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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important … factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the …

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Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm

Cuñat, Vicente; Guadalupe, Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of executives and measure foreign competition as … promotion and increases pay inequality among the top executives of the firm, with CEOs typically experiencing wage increases …

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Men at Work in a Land Down-under

Booth, Alison; Katic, Pamela - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for scale effects on the offer arrival rate and the wage offer distribution …. When contrasting London with the rest of the country we find scale effects in wage offers. But the larger market delivers …

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On-The-Job Search, Productivity Shocks and the Individual Earnings Process

Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

job search model how the combined assumptions of on-the-job search and wage renegotiation by mutual consent act as a … quantitatively plausible 'internal propagation mechanism' of i.i.d. productivity shocks into persistent wage shocks. The model … suggests that wage dynamics should be thought of as the outcome of a specific acceptance/rejection scheme of i …

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Policy Complementarities: The Case for Fundamental Labour Market Reform

Coe, David T; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper analyses complementarities among a variety of labour market policies. It shows: (a) that a wide range of labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at...

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The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform.

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

on search effort and labor market attachment, and lower the reservation wage of the unemployed, with negative effects on …

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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...

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