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How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina - 2016

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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Long Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration : BHP 1887-2012

Pottenger, Mike - 2013

Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...

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Paying for Others' Protection : Causal Evidence on Wages in a Two-Tier System

Centeno, Mário - 2014

wages. We explore a reform that increased the protection of open-ended contracts for a well-defined subset of firms, while … leaving it unchanged for other firms. The causal evidence points to a reduction in wages for new open-ended and fixed …

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Health and the Wage Rate : Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question

Dench, Daniel - 2018

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and dynamic panel estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a...

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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages

Afonso, António - 2010

We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of … public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total … private sector wages. We then set up a dynamic labour market equilibrium model with two sectors, search and matching frictions …

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Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-Offs and Sorting

Eriksson, Tor - 2010

The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-off between wages and nonmonetary rewards and …

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure

Johnston, Andrew - 2020

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...

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Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Butschek, Sebastian - 2019

We study the performance effects of payment schemes for freelancers offering services on an online platform in an RCT. Under the initial scheme, the firm pays workers a pure sales commission. The intervention reduces the commission rate and adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure...

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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

Howell, Sabrina T. - 2020

relatively low wages and are paid more when cash is available …

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