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Hall, Brian J. - 2000

Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the share of executive compensation paid through stock options. In this paper, we examine the extent to which tax policy has influenced the composition of executive compensation, and discuss the implications of rising stock-based pay...

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Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth

Munasinghe, Lalith - 2000

higher marginal rate of substitution of current wages for future wages. Incidentally, a survey of several hundred …

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Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences : Exploiting a Natural Experiment

Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999

In this paper, we exploit a 'natural experiment' associated with human reproduction to identify the effect of teen childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In particular, we exploit the fact that a substantial...

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Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?

Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999

This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...

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Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Staiger, Douglas - 1999

of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …

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Executive Compensation : Six Questions that Need Answering

Abowd, John M. - 1999

In this article, we focus on how recent research advances can be used to address the following six questions: (1) How much does executive compensation cost the firm? (2) How much is executive compensation worth to the recipient? (3) How well does executive compensation work? (4) What are the...

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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study

Mairesse, Jacques - 1999

In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...

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Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality

Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …

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Compensation and Firm Performance

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1987

This paper uses stochastic simulation and my U.S. econometric model to examine the optimal choice of monetary policy instruments. Are the variances, covariances, and parameters in the model such as to favor one instrument over the other, in particular the interest rate over the money supply? The...

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High School Graduation, Performance and Earnings

Weiss, Andrew - 1985

paper investigates the reasons for the discontinuous increase in wages associated with graduation from high school … the sorting model of education provides a better explanation for the higher wages of high school graduates than does the …

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