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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older...
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Treating equals unequally : incentives in teams, workers' motivation and production technology
Goerg, Sebastian; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
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The diversity of personnel practices and firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
job levels and human capital as wage determinants, the dispersion of wages within job levels, the importance of tenure in … levels and a tight relationship between human capital variables and wages. …
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Career interruptions and current earnings : the role of interruption type, compensation component, and gender
Gerst, Benedikt; Grund, Christian - 2017
This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data …
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Paid and unpaid overtime working in Germany and the UK
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A.; Hübler, Olaf; … - 2000
can either be paid or unpaid. This research considers overtime working in Germany and the UK and shows that the …
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The effect of firms' partial retirement policies on the labour market outcomes of their employees
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2013
In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees' labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....
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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013
wages and rising wage dispersion over time. …
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Bias in returns to tenure when firm wages and employment comove : a quantitative assessment and solution
Martins, Pedro S.; Snell, Andy; Stüber, Heiko; Thomas, … - 2016
controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
; insider econometrics ; wages …
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Bonus payments, hierarchy levels and tenure : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Grund, Christian; Kräkel, Matthias - 2010
Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. The first approach argues that explicit bonuses serve as substitutes for implicit career concerns....
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