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We study the relationship between compensation and risk-taking among finance firms using a neglected insight from principal-agent contracting with hidden action and risk-averse agents. If the sensitivity of pay to stock price or slope does not vary with stock price volatility, then total...
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This essay reviews Bebchuk and Fried's "Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation". Bebchuk and Fried criticize the standard view of executive compensation, in which executives negotiate contracts with shareholders that provide incentives that motivate them to...
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Innovation in the U.S. economy is about employing and rewarding highly talented workers to produce new products. Using unique longitudinal matched employer-employee data, this paper makes a key connection between talent and firms in markets with risky product innovations. We show that software...
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effects of mandated profit-sharing on firms and their employees. The cost of mandated profit-sharing for firms is evident in …-reform. Using a difference-in-difference strategy, we find that, at the firm-level, mandated profit-sharing (a) increases labor … share by 1.8 percentage points, (b) reduces the profit share by 1.4 percentage points, and (c) does not affect investment …
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Norway, we are able to attribute business income to personal owners as it accrues rather than when it is realized. This …
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This study provides direct evidence concerning the relationship between experience and performance among managerial and professional employees doing similar work in two major U. S. corporations. The facts presented indicate that while, within grade levels, there is a strong positive association...
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earnings by the entire nominal employer share of the tax increase. If wages play a motivational role but the market still … clears, the range of possible outcomes is broader but wages should still not rise if the tax is nominally divided 50/50. In … effects of wages are important but cannot clearly distinguish between the efficiency wage and market-clearing versions of …
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A common view of CEO compensation is that there is essentially no correlation between firm performance and CEO pay. This calls into question an important component of effective corporate governance. This zero correlation' belief is based on the widely cited result that CEO wealth rises by only...
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in wages are explained by movements in lagged levels of profitability and unemployment. The results appear to be … competitive labor market model. The paper estimates the unemployment elasticity of pay at approximately -0.03, and the profit …
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This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...
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