This report comprises three papers. In the first paper, we present a comprehensive assessment of the Human Resources for Health (HRH) remuneration system in the Philippines. We examine the current stock of HRH, their economic contribution, and the governance and financing mechanisms that support...

This study explores the relationship between the daily habits of S&P 500 CEOs and their financial remuneration. Using a mixed-method approach, the research analyzes time allocation across work, sleep, and exercise among 22 CEOs from leading publicly listed U.S. corporations. Regression analysis...

The management of government spending on employee compensation is crucial for small developing states (SDS), where such spending constitutes a large portion of government expenses. These states often face unique challenges, such as disproportionately high government employment levels and the...

This paper contributes to the ongoing discourse on the taxation of top-income earners by empirically investigating the impact of tax policy changes on pay without performance. Using data on executive compensation in the United States, I compare the sensitivity of executive compensation to...

Advancing prior research, this study investigates the effect of Chair-CEO diversity on the relationship between executive remuneration and firm performance. Employing a unique sample of 262 UK listed firms from 2009 to 2020, our findings are five-fold. First, our findings suggest that Chair-CEO...

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...

In this exploratory research, and driven by intense interest in media focused attention on the apparently wide differential in pay contrast between US top managers in large corporations versus their non-US top managers, we examined the backgrounds of the highest paid Chief Executive Officers...