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workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 … employees and create a positive workplace culture reduces voluntary turnover and increases employee intent to stay and raises …
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Executive pay fell during the 1940s, marking the last notable decrease in the past 70 years. We study this decline using a new panel dataset on the remuneration of top executives in 246 firms. We find that government regulation--including explicit salary restrictions and taxation--had, at best,...
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In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain … the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on … period investigated the Netherlands experienced an increase in wage inequality. Despite the centralized system of wage …
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the wage structure between and within firms and changes therein since 1980, especially with an eye on possible impacts of … the trend towards a more decentralized wage determination. The shift towards decentralized wage bargaining has coincided … competition in product markets eroding firm-specific rents. Hence, the prime suspect is the change in wage setting institutions. …
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To what extent do different firms follow different wage policies? How do such policies affect worker mobility between … firms, and what are the effects of different wage bargaining regimes? The empirical branch of personnel economics has long … employer/employee data suitable for such analysis. This paper has three parts. First, we describe the wage setting and …
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We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in their share of aggregate income. In the U.S., since top income shares began to rise rapidly in the early 1980s, incomes of those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution...
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This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...
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Work schedules play an important role in time-sensitive production utilizing workers interchangeably. Studying emergency department physicians in shift work, I find two types of strategic behavior induced by schedules. First, on an extensive margin, physicians "slack off" by accepting fewer...
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aims at analyzing the relationships between effort, wage distribution within the firms and individual evaluation interviews … cognitive effort, on work overload and on wage setting. Using a matched employer / employee survey on computerisation and … classical incentive scheme and fifth, evaluated workers have a better knowledge of the rules driving wage setting. …
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Recently, many U.S. employers have adopted less generous prescription drug benefits. In addition, the U.S. began to offer prescription drug insurance to approximately 42 million Medicare beneficiaries in 2006. We use data on individual health insurance claims and benefit data from 1997-2003 to...
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