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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established …. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of …' leadership styles on employees' performance, work style, and mental well-being in times of crisis. Using longitudinal …

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CEO compensation

Frydman, Carola; Jenter, Dirk - 2010

This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...

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Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline : theory and evidence from India

Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013

We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...

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Common ownership, competition, and top management incentives

Antón, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; … - 2016

We show theoretically and empirically that executives are paid less for their own firm's performance and more for their rivals' performance if an industry's firms are more commonly owned by the same set of investors. Higher common ownership also leads to higher unconditional total pay. We...

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An efficiency-wage model with habit concerns about wages

Goerke, Laszlo - 2020

We analyse the implications of habit formation relating to wages in a multi-period efficiency-wage model. If employees have such preferences, their existence provides firms with incentives to raise wages and reduce employment over time. Greater intensity does not necessarily have the same...

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The sources of the union wage gap : the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2018

Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal - a country with near-universal union coverage - we find evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and...

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Does self-employment pay? : the role of unemployment and earnings risk

Garcia-Cabo, Joaquin; Madera, Rocio - 2024

This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between self-employment and paid-employment. Using Spanish administrative data, we characterize the distribution and dynamics of earnings and document lower and less dispersed earnings...

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The efficient side of progressive income taxation

Corneo, Giacomo - 2000

This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto...

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Auctions with signaling concerns

Bos, Olivier; Truyts, Tom - 2020

We study a symmetric private value auction with signaling, in which the auction outcome is used by an outside observer to infer the bidders’ types. We elicit conditions under which an essentially unique D1 equilibrium bidding function exists in the second-price auction and the English auction....

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Social status in student networks and implications for perceived social climate in schools

Alan, Sule; Bodur, Elif; Kubilay, Elif; Mumcu, Ipek - 2021

We investigate how adolescents’ social status in their peers' eyes shapes the way they view their social climate in secondary schools. Utilizing novel data on over 10,000 students, we construct comprehensive measures of social status and perceived social climate for each student, including a...

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