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This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP is determined in a more competitive fashion than...
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A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...
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We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for...
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This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on...
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It is well known in personnel economics that firms may improve the quality of their workforce by offering performance pay. We analyse an equilibrium model where worker productivity is private information and show that the gains to the firms from worker self-selection may not be matched by a...
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based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even …
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constraints that act on these processes, leave managers with considerable power to shape their own pay arrangements. Examining the …
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This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through … relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a worker-firm matched panel dataset which enables us to track managers across …. Contrary to blue and white collars, we find that managers are paid a sizeable premium for export experience which has both a …
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We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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should err in favour of the arrangement that is less favourable to managers. Such an approach, we show, would make it most …
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