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An Index of Labour Market Well-being for OECD Countries

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This report’s objective is the construction of an index of labour market well-being that is capable of measuring the well-being that individuals in a given society at a given point in time can obtain through the labour market. Besides considering simply the average return from working, workers...

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Motivating employees for long term company success

Lewis, Kyle (contributor) - 2010

There have been many recent examples in the news of how employees were motivated by their companies to take actions that were not best for the long term success of the company. Mortgage companies gave financial incentives to brokers for each loan approved regardless of quality, which resulted in...

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CEO Compensation and Firm's Cash Holding: A Pitch

Atif, Muhammad - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 15 (2016) 3, pp. 605-611

This letter discusses the application of a pitch using Faff (2015a) pitching template, with intention to refine my idea and develop it in a systematic fashion. I find the pitching research template interesting; by applying it to my study that enhances the thought process and helps in precisely...

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What to do after a data breach? Examining apology and compensation as response strategies for health service providers

Masuch, Kristin; Greve, Maike; Trang, Simon - In: Electronic Markets 31 (2021) 4, pp. 829-848

compensation) affect customer reactions after a data breach in the specific context of fitness trackers. Drawing on expectation … confirmation theory, we argue that the recovery actions derived from practice, apology, and compensation address the assimilation …

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Industrialization and Compensation for Displaced Farmers

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2010

This paper analyzes an environment where a plotof land is currently under agricultural use under tenancy, andboth the landlord and the tenant can invest to enhance agricultural productivity. There is the possibility of converting theland to non-agricultural use. We analyze the incentives of...

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Low Animal Welfare Havens, Will they Be a Problem and how Can it Be Dealt with? In Multifunctional Agriculture, Policies and Markets: Understanding the Critical Linkage

Grethe, Harald - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2004

Les futurs coûts associés au respect des standards obligatoires de protection des animaux de l’Union européenne pour la volaille et lesoeufs sont importants et pourraient mener au transfert de la production vers des pays tiers. Cet article compare systématiquement lespolitiques...

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Social comparison in the workplace: Evidence from a field experiment

Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2011

We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance-independent hourly wage....

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Transparency in Complex Compensation Systems

Möller Quintanar, Ana - In: Junior Management Science (JUMS) 7 (2022) 1, pp. 185-200

complex compensation systems, on the comparisons employees draw between each other. To do so, an overview of compensation … compensation system. In a first scenario, where employees pose as fully rational actors, full pay transparency presents positive … biases, the compensation system is perceived as inequitable, other things equal. Concluding, full pay openness does not …

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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America

Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...

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For The Many of The Few?

Wong, Wai Kin - 2011

Recent studies [Bebchuk and Fried (2002)] have shown that managerial power and negotiations play important roles in the design of executive pay arrangements, suggesting that some CEOs may extract greater economic rent from shareholders when provided with the opportunity. This paper seeks to...

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