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Flexible Work Arrangements in Low Wage Jobs : Evidence from Job Vacancy Data
Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020
vacancies. Job flexibility at low wages is more likely to be offered alongside a wage-contract that exposes workers to earnings … risk, while flexibility at higher wages and in more skilled occupations is more likely to be offered alongside a fixed … point increase in the proportion of flexible and non-salaried vacancies at low wages …
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Remote Work Across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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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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Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis : Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector
Grund, Christian - 2013
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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On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions
Bachan, Ray - 2021
The pay determining process of CEOs of UK higher education institutions is modelled using three econometric methodologies applied to a large and unique dataset for the academic years 1997/98 through to 2005/06. A gender differential in pay is detected and this differential remains robust across...
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Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile M. - 2021
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...
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Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
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The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2013
important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089283
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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages
Maestas, Nicole - 2018
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...
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Globalization and Wage Convergence : Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide - 2014
Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree...
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