While salary benchmarking is widely used to help set compensation, there has been little econometric modeling of peer-group identification and the impacts of benchmarking on the compensation decision. We adapt some empirical tools from spatial econometrics to analyze compensation decisions...

Although salary benchmarking is widely used to help set compensation, there has been a lack of attention to the statistical implications of this practice on compensation patterns of peer institutions. We adapt some empirical tools from spatial econometrics to analyze compensation decisions...

The Bohai Economic Rim plays an important role in supporting China’s economic growth. For this research, we selected nine main ports in the region to study whether intra-port competition or corporatization would improve efficiency. Using a panel fixed effect model and stochastic frontier...