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We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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There is a debate on whether executive pay reflects rent extraction due to "managerial power" or is the result of arms-length bargaining in a principal-agent framework. In this paper we offer a test of the managerial power hypothesis by empirically examining the CEO compensation of U.S. public...
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We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …
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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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We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …
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general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive …This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the … number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than …
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-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a … managers, but it is consistent with such claims and suggests that this area is now an important one for systematic future … research. -- organizational performance ; expert leaders ; hospitals ; physicians ; professional managers …
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cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated …
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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,...
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management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences …, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would require … data on productivity, on the preferences of those who interact with managers, and on perceptions of productivity. Financial …
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