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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010
brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and … ability is always higher in the private sector. As a result, relatively many of the more able managers self-select into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940496
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Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium
Grossmann, Volker (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743823
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Management compensation and firm-level income inequality
Frederiksen, Anders (contributor);  … - 2008
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754931
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Leadership skills and wages
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411183
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The contribution of managers to organizational success : evidence from German soccer
Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2014
We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417962
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The market for CEOs: building legacy and feeling empowered matter
Dupuy, Arnaud; Kennes, John; Lyng, Ran Sun - 2021
We develop a two-sided multidimensional matching model of the market for CEOs that allows for both pecuniary and non-pecuniary (amenity) compensation. The model is estimated by maximum likelihood estimation using matched CEO-firm data from Denmark. We show that CEOs have preferences for building...
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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
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Estimating complementarity between education and training
Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of post-schooling training that explicitly allows for possible complementarity between initial schooling levels and returns to training. Precisely, the wage outcome equation depends on accumulated schooling and on the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784398
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How do labor representatives affect incentive orientation of executive compensation?
Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2016
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526742
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More than the money : payoff-irrelevant terms in relational contracts
Cromwell, Erich; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Ziółkowska, Monika - 2018
In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...
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