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and coordination of activities works. It is based empirically on interviews with consultants and managers of consulting …
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This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE …. -- gender ; competition ; incentives ; GRE ; high stakes ; low stakes ; test score gap …
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incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility … increase the managers’ short-term risk-taking incentives and that those incentives contribute to the risk effectively taken by …
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We study how an improvement in contracting institutions due to the 1999 U.S.-China bilateral agreement affects U.S. firms' innovation. We show that U.S. firms operating in China decrease their process innovations—innovations that improve firms' own production methods—following the agreement....
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This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant approaches exit, its average wage falls, but more slowly than...
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We measure the level and growth of education segregation in American workplaces from 2000 to 2020. American workplaces show an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the establishment has mostly workers of similar education levels, that is comparable to racial residential...
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The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...
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of the firm's administrative records alongside survey data and information-provision experiments. First, we document …
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This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees’ wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and...
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The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320383