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Frydman, Carola - 2010

This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...

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Pay Cuts for the Boss : Executive Compensation in the 1940s

Frydman, Carola - 2011

Executive pay fell during the 1940s, marking the last notable decrease in the past 70 years. We study this decline using a new panel dataset on the remuneration of top executives in 246 firms. We find that government regulation--including explicit salary restrictions and taxation--had, at best,...

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Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility

Krishna, Pravin - 2011

increase in average wages in exporting firms relative to domestic firms, consistent with earlier studies. However, using … the differential impact of trade openness on the wages of workers at exporting firms relative to otherwise identical …, non-random labor market allocation mechanisms, in determining the effects of trade policy changes on wages …

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School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets : Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina

Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2011

I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low-income, high-minority share) hired fewer new teachers and...

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Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work...

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Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market : Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap

Carruthers, Celeste - 2016

The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination and access to human capital. Using new data on local school quality, we find that human capital played a predominant role...

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Executive Compensation : Facts

Clementi, Gian Luca - 2010

In this paper we describe the important features of executive compensation in the US from 1993 to 2006. Some confirm what has been found for earlier periods and some are novel. Important facts about compensation are that: the compensation distribution is highly skewed; each year, a sizeable...

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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...

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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends

Beaudry, Paul - 2008

This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the Survey of Consumer Finances over the period 1971 to 1993, we show that the age-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more...

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Health and the Wage : 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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