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Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...
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turnover rates increase markedly and their CEOs, both incumbents and successors, experience significant reductions in total … turnover ; financial distress ; lucky grants ; bias-corrected matching estimators …
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The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel … turnover. While the strength of the turnover-performance relationship does not seem to depend on factors such as managerial … ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
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brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and … ability is always higher in the private sector. As a result, relatively many of the more able managers self-select into the …
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on CEO turnover, ownership structure and board characteristics, we estimate Logit models of CEO turnover. We find … turnover is significantly and inversely related to firm performance though the magnitude of the relationship is modest; (ii …) CEO turnover-performance link is stronger when the percentage of company shares owned by the largest shareholder is larger …
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bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the … discuss the implications of our findings in the context of principal-agent theory and the wider literature on turnover among …
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We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
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hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U …
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Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires rather than incumbents. The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset provides...
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In this paper we analyse the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on firms' entry and exit rates for a large sample of industries of thirteen countries selected from the most recent version of the OECD Structural and Business Statistics Database. Using a differences-in-differences...
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