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Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Staiger, Douglas - 1999

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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Robots and Labor in the Service Sector : Evidence from Nursing Homes

Eggleston, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In one of the first studies of service sector robotics using establishment-level data, we study the impact of robots on staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that robot adoption increases employment by augmenting...

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Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts

Currie, Janet - 2003

This paper uses data from the 1990s to examine changes in the wages, employment, and effort of nurses in California hospitals following takeovers by large chains. The market for nurses has been described as a classic monopsony, so that one might expect increases in firm market power to be...

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Incentives and Careers in Organizations

Gibbons, Robert - 1996

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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The boundary of the firm in a model of trade within a hierarchy

Levy, Nadav (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

-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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Managerial Value Diversion and Shareholder Wealth

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000

managers. We question this view within its own analytical framework by studying, in a principal-agent model, the effects of … diversion overlooks a significant cost of such behavior. Many common modes of compensation can provide managers with incentives …

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The Taxation of Executive Compensation

Hall, Brian J. - 2000

Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the share of executive compensation paid through stock options. In this paper, we examine the extent to which tax policy has influenced the composition of executive compensation, and discuss the implications of rising stock-based pay...

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Performance Incentives Within Firms : The Effect of Managerial Responsibility

Aggarwal, Rajesh K. - 1999

executive officers. However, firms are run by teams of managers, and a theory of the firm should also explain the distribution …

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Executive Compensation : Six Questions that Need Answering

Abowd, John M. - 1999

In this article, we focus on how recent research advances can be used to address the following six questions: (1) How much does executive compensation cost the firm? (2) How much is executive compensation worth to the recipient? (3) How well does executive compensation work? (4) What are the...

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Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring

Ding, Wenzhi; Chen, Lin; Schmid, Thomas; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What makes independent directors perform their monitoring duty? One possible reason is that they are worried about being sanctioned by regulators if they do not monitor sufficiently well. Using unique features of the Chinese financial market, we estimate the extent to which independent...

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