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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861085
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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860221
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Mentoring and Segregation:Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using alarge longitudinal data set for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861177
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps:An International Study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862584
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Becoming an Entrepreneur
Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact onincome of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametricmatching estimator the paper alleviates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863120
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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859602
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Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company
Pfeifer, Christian; Sohr, Tatjana - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859626
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Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination : The Gender Difference
Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859718
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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates … have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859745
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis
Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859579