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A variety of recent theoretical and empirical advances have renewed interest in monopsonistic models of the labor market. However, there is little direct empirical support for these models, even in labor markets that are textbook examples of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at...
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This paper is an econometric analysis of the on-the-job training (OJT) decisions of a group of white American males during 1975. The data are obtained from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which asked a very careful series of questions concerning the individual's OJT status. Each individual's...
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This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
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This paper surveys two related pieces of the labor-economics literature: incentive pay and careers in organizations. In the discussion of incentives, I first summarize theory and evidence related to the classic agency model, which emphasizes the tradeoff between insurance and incentives. I then...
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transition: the possibility of nationally asymmetric real shocks. I review that topic in the context of Ireland's recent …
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We use micro data for Ireland to estimate how export participation and the export revenue of incumbent exporters …
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-world multidivisional firms: Operative decisions are in the hands of middle managers who are rewarded with incentive contracts based on the … performance of their units; Managers' decisions are subject to approval and intervention by the top management of the firm; and … managers are better informed regarding the affairs of their divisions than their superiors in the firm's hierarchy. In this …
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respect to takeovers, states have incentives to produce rules that excessively protect incumbent managers. The development of … policy basis, and, more importantly, they have provided managers with a wider and more open-ended latitude to engage in …
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This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment projects and allocate capital to these projects efficiently. A decentralized approach with small, single-manager firms is most likely to be attractive when information about...
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