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Do employees profit from profit sharing? : evidence from Canadian panel data
Long, Richard J.; Fang, Tony - 2012
Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, this paper examines whether employee earnings increase, decrease, or do not change in the period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing, relative to establishments that do not adopt profit sharing. Our research contributes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570129
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CEO and board characteristics as determinants of private benefits of control : evidence from the Russian stock exchange
Berezinec, Irina V.; Ilina, Julja; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524994
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Does it pay to be a cadre? : estimating the returns to being a local official in rural China
Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - 2012
Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550664
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The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings
Orrenius, Pia M. (contributor);  … - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716537
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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants : a special case
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2008
Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726800
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Long-term economic consequences of Vietnam-era conscription : schooling, experience and earnings
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor);  … - 2008
Military service reduces civilian labor market experience but subsidizes higher education through the GI Bill. Both of these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam-era draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings...
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Real wage inequality
Moretti, Enrico (contributor) - 2008
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...
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Earnings functions and rates of return
Heckman, James J. (contributor); Lochner, Lance (contributor) - 2008
internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652689
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Match bias from earnings imputation in the current population survey : the case of imperfect matching
Bollinger, Christopher R. (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the latter group being assigned earnings of donors who share some but not all the attributes of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285421
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Ambition and jealousy : income interactions in the "old" Europe versus the "new" Europe and the United States
Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2006
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation … and reference income (defined as the income of one's professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of … United States. Whereas "jealousy" is dominant in the former, "ambition" is even stronger in the latter. -- income …
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