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We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a …
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evaluates that literature, clarifies what tournament theory predicts about the relationship, identifies methodological pitfalls … relationship between pay disparity and firm performance. Tournament theory offers a unified framework that can explain an inverted …
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In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created between wages and marginal product. When oligopsonistic firms' production technology requires generally trained workers, firms may therefore receive part of the returns to general training and be willing to...
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This article examines whether social comparisons have behavioral effects on workers' performance when a firm can choose workers' wages or let them choose their own. Firms can delegate the wage decision to neither, one or both workers in the firm. We vary the information workers receive, finding...
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supply using a real effort experiment. Two results stand out. First, no one theory seems to fit the pooled data. On average … reciprocal or intrinsically motivated and, indeed, these types respond as theory would predict: reciprocators return wage gifts …
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In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...
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