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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,...

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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 …

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The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium

Milla, Joniada - 2017

focusing mainly on the context of the country under analysis and the identification strategies employed. I then estimate the …

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Complex Production Processes and Wage Inequality

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2004

This paper studies how changes in the complexity of the firms' production technologies affect wage differences between and within tasks. In a production process where tasks are complementary, the employer may have an incentive to pay higher wages when using more complex technologies because the...

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Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs

Vartiainen, Juhana; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2004

This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different complexity using panel data on Finnish metalworkers. These data provide a measure for the complexity of the workers' tasks that can be used to construct a complexity ladder of jobs. We study whether women...

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Why Do Part-Time Workers Earn Less? : The Role of Worker and Job Skills

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2004

The wages of part-time workers are considerably lower than are those of full-time workers. Measurable worker and job characteristics, including occupational skill requirements, account for much of the part-time penalty. Longitudinal analysis indicates that much of the remaining gap reflects...

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Who gets the Reward? An Empirical Exploration of Bonus Pay and Task Characteristics

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2000

Contract theory predicts that workers are remunerated based on all available unbiased individual performance measures. In the real world, measures are often biased: tasks are too complex to include all measures, unforeseen contingencies occur for which contracts specify nothing, and the...

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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

Zoghi, Cindy; Levenson, Alec; Gibbs, Michael - 2005

In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job attributes: multitasking, discretion, skills, and...

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Division of labour and directed production

Ratto, Marisa; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2005

We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...

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Skill transferability, regret and mobility

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2006

After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training targeted at work in other sectors. In this paper, we look at mobility immediately after graduation from the perspective that educational choices have been made when these pupils...

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