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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262364
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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004
This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261874
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Social networks
de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
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Dynamic female labor supply
Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2009
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269438
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Directed search in the housing market
Albrecht, James; Gautier, Pieter A.; Vroman, Susan - 2009
In this paper, we present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the way houses are bought and sold in the United States. Our model is consistent with the observation that houses are sometimes sold above, sometimes below and sometimes at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269591
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Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2003
learn the abilities of agents. Theory suggests high first-period equilibrium effort in the hidden ability treatment but no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261580
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Principals as agents? Investigating accountability in the compensation and performance of school principals
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2007
In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and school performance. Though such incentives and standards are increasingly common, the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268128
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Principal accountability at private secondary schools
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2007
Increasing interest in voucher programs and privatizing public schools reveals a commonly-held belief that private schools are better able to produce a quality education. While state and national standards do not directly affect these schools, their private control yields strong student...
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Distributive justice and CEO compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - 2007
, based on justice theory and making use of Rossi's factorial survey method, enables assessment of ideas of fairness in CEO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268740
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Social connections and incentives in the workplace: evidence from personnel data
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2008
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269058