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On the determinants of pay of CEOs in UK public sector higher education institutions

Bachan, Ray (contributor) - 2008

The pay determining process of CEOs of UK higher education institutions is modelled using three econometric methodologies applied to a large and unique dataset for the academic years 1997/98 through to 2005/06. A gender differential in pay is detected and this differential remains robust across...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779101

Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort

Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323166

The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009

This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...

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Executive pay inefficiencies in the financial sector

Barton, Haley; Laux, Judith A. - In: The journal of applied business research 26 (2010) 4, pp. 65-71

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Principals as agents? : Investigating accountability in the compensation and performance of school principals

Billger, Sherrilyn M. (contributor) - 2007

In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and school performance. Though such incentives and standards are increasingly common, the existing...

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Bonus payments and reference point violations

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010

We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …

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Bonus payments, hierarchy levels and tenure : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence

Grund, Christian; Kräkel, Matthias - 2010

levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …

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The impact of performance-based CEO and CFO compensation on internal control quality

Kobelsky, Kevin; Lim, Jee Hae; Jha, Ranjini - In: The journal of applied business research 29 (2013) 3, pp. 913-933

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Management compensation and the economic crisis : longitudinal evidence from the German chemical sector

Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2013

extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards … perspective. We also examine that certain parts of managers seem to have more power to influence their compensation than others …. Inequality in managers' compensation decreased during the crisis. …

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Gender pay gaps among highly educated professionals : compensation components do matter

Grund, Christian - 2014

Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male-female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people...

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