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We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that … dataset, we find that stronger identification is associated with less job search and turnover. Workers that have higher … identification exhibit significantly lower wage growth. In line with the model, this pattern tends to be reversed conditional on …
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positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively …
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We present a natural field experiment on promoting pay equity through simple modifications to the salary review process involving 623 middle managers and 8,951 subordinate employees of a large technology firm. We first document a gender gap not only in salary levels but also in salary increases....
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We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense … of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job … between relative wage increases and job satisfaction is relevant for managers with lower absolute wage levels in particular …
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This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to differentiate between different reasons for interruptions as well as between various compensation components....
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history has occurred over the past decades. We find that there exists a significant wage penalty for those migrant workers who … potential reasons for the wage penalty: 1) the informal job search sends a negative signal (of workers' inability to …
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. I construct and estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model of job mobility. The key feature of the … model is the specification of wage shocks at the worker- firm match level, for workers can respond to these shocks by … substantial. The second result is that true wage risk is almost three times as large as the wage variance observed after job …
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We analyse a unique data set that combines reservation wage and actually paid wage for a large sample of Dutch recent … proportionality. We find that the difference between reservation wage and accepted wage is virtually random, as search theory predicts …. We also find that most information contained in the accepted wage is included in the reservation wage, as one would …
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We investigate the relationship between an individuals' reservation wage, i.e. the lowest wage acceptable in order to … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment – the 'wage curve' …
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While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm performance than collective ones. This also applies to an index of best management practices...
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