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bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
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Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
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, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …
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While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging … employment and wages and is also able to control for many other sources of heterogeneity, including attractiveness, cognitive …
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United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages …. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing evidence of positive effects of JC on wages both at the mean and …. Furthermore, we find that the program's effect on wages varies across quantiles and groups. Blacks likely experience larger …
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experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages …
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headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …
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unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers wages …We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more …
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Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
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This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained and hours worked on a performance pay contract. Using these data, we estimate the effects of...
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