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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...
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extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards … perspective. We also examine that certain parts of managers seem to have more power to influence their compensation than others …. Inequality in managers' compensation decreased during the crisis. …
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percent and 1 percent of the within-firm wage distribution rise substantially. Instead, the effect on average wages is small …
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In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus...
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The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …
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This paper investigates preferences for limiting top incomes and wealth through a surveybased experiment with a large sample of participants (N = 3,954) from the US and Germany. Using a revealed preferences approach, we find that a significant majority (around 85%) of participants support income...
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This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data … of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to differentiate between different reasons for …
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Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using difference-in-difference estimation. Performance...
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managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … by approximately 7%, while leaving team leaders' productivity unchanged, and was profitable for the firm. During the …
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incentives are renewed but fade when they are discontinued. Fixed bonuses lead to smaller effects. Both treatments appear to …
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