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Paying Tomorrow's Military
Williams, Cindy - 2006
Good compensation is an important part of the nation's compact with its men and women in uniform. In contrast to the private sector or other government employers, the U.S. military spends a large share of its compensation dollars on noncash benefits. Such benefits are extremely inefficient from...
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Retiree health benefits as deferred compensation : evidence from the health and retirement study
Marton, James; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2012
Are early retiree health benefits (RHBs) a form of deferred compensation that binds workers to an employer? Most employers who offer RHBs offer them only to workers who have 10 or more years of tenure with the firm and have reached age 55. Accordingly, workers in firms offering RHBs have an...
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Retiree Health Benefits as Deferred Compensation : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Marton, James - 2015
Are early retiree health benefits (RHBs) a form of deferred compensation that binds workers to an employer? Most employers who offer RHBs offer them only to workers who have 10 or more years of tenure with the firm and have reached age 55. Accordingly, workers in firms offering RHBs have an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036780
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Why firms avoid cutting wages : survey evidence from European firms
Du Caju, Philip; Kosma, Theodora; Lawless, Martina; … - 2013
The rarity with which firms reduce nominal wages has been frequently observed, even in the face of considerable … incidence of wage cuts and to assess the relevance of a range of potential reasons for why they avoid cutting wages. Concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590264
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The Executive Compensation Threat to Retirement
Wiedenbeck, Peter J.; Stein, Norman P. - 2021
In recent years a new phenomenon has appeared on the retirement savings landscape: the expansion into middle management ranks of a traditional tool of executive compensation, the so-called “top hat” pension plan. Top hat plans are unfunded deferred compensation programs for a “select group...
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Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange : An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets
Huck, Steffen; Seltzer, Andrew; Wallace, Brian - 2021
-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero …, while third period productivity is zero and wages are positive. The experiment produces strong evidence that deferred … there was a strong effort response to future-period wages. We also find some evidence of gift exchange; worker players …
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Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-Offs and Sorting
Eriksson, Tor - 2010
The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-off between wages and nonmonetary rewards and …
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Wages or fringes? : some evidence on trade-offs and sorting/ Tor Eriksson; Nicolai Kristensen
Eriksson, Tor; Kristensen, Nicolai - 2010
The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-off between wages and nonmonetary rewards and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300127
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Why Firms Avoid Cutting Wages : Survey Evidence from European Firms
Kosma, Theodora; Du Caju, Philip; Lawless, Martina; … - 2022
The rarity with which firms reduce nominal wages has been frequently observed, even in the face of considerable … incidence of wage cuts and to assess the relevance of a range of potential reasons for why they avoid cutting wages. Concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030224
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Why Firms Avoid Cutting Wages : Survey Evidence from European Firms
Du Caju, Philip - 2013
The rarity with which firms reduce nominal wages has been frequently observed, even in the face of considerable … incidence of wage cuts and to assess the relevance of a range of potential reasons for why they avoid cutting wages. Concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071545