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Layoffs with Payoffs: A Bargaining Model of Union Wage and Severance Pay Determination

Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Popular characterizations of union preferences assume that the income of laid-off union members is exogenous. There is evidence, however, of intra-union distribution schemes such as severance payments, unemployment insurance, retraining arrangements and early retirement schemes. This paper...

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The Unemployment Implications of Mandatory Firing Costs

Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The model developed in this paper examines the relationship between firing costs and unemployment in a simple two-period model with uncertainty. Where there are long-term employment relationships, and where risk-averse workers and risk-neutral firms bargain over wages and firing costs, average...

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Firing Costs, Unions and Employment

Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting feature of this model is that the contract curve is vertical. Some of the predictions of the model are confronted with the available British data on non-statutory firing costs,...

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Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk: Implications for Employment Contracts

Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk-averse and there are employment and unemployment risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment contracts offer severance compensation to smooth...

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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

instrument for addressing the agency problem between managers and shareholders but also as part of the agency problem itself … managers. As a result, managers wield substantial influence over their own pay arrangements, and they have an interest in … reducing the saliency of the amount of their pay and the extent to which that pay is de-coupled from managers’ performance. We …

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Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse; Walker, David I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

constraints that act on these processes, leave managers with considerable power to shape their own pay arrangements. Examining the …

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Active Agents, Passive Principals: Does High-Powered CEO Compensation Really Improve Incentives

Dow, James; Raposo, Clara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In this Paper we use agency theory to study the active role of the CEO in the formulation of corporate strategy. We …

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Serial CEO Incentives and the Structure of Managerial Contracts

Giannetti, Mariassunta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper analyzes the optimal contracting consequences of a recent phenomenon in the managerial labour market, CEO job hopping. I show that if the managerial labour market is thin and firm growth opportunities are weak, the optimal contract rewards the CEO for past performance through a bonus....

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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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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The Effect of Competition on Managers’ Compensation: Evidence From a Quasi-natural Experiment

Fernandes, Ana; Ferreira, Priscila; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

market competition on the performance-pay sensitivity of CEOs, and contrast it with the effect for department managers and … reform, decreased the sensitivity of pay to performance of CEOs, with no significant effects found for other managers or …

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