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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms : new evidence
Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2008
The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155574
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Human capital and career success : evidence from linked employer-employee data
Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - 2011
Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...
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Why are there so few women in executive positions? : an analysis of gender differences in the life-cycle of executive employment
Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy - 2015
"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of executive employment, which allows for a full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472498
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Managerial incentives and favoritism in promotion decisions : theory and field evidence
Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans. -- incentives …
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Gender and work hours transitions in Australia : drop ceilings and trap-door floors
Drago, Robert (contributor); Black, David (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Career concerns in a simple experimental labour market
Irlenbusch, Bernd (contributor); Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The promotion dynamics of American executives
Belzil, Christian (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies : an examination of fast tracks and functional area
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Poinas, … - 2012
This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved individual heterogeneity and allows for both an endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656075
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Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping attitudes : a large field study of managers
Eriksson, Tor; Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar - 2017
-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …
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