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Yesterday's Heroes : Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking

Cheng, Ing-Haw - 2010

We study the relationship between compensation and risk-taking among finance firms using a neglected insight from principal-agent contracting with hidden action and risk-averse agents. If the sensitivity of pay to stock price or slope does not vary with stock price volatility, then total...

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Executive Pay and Performance : Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry

Hubbard, R. Glenn - 1994

the effect of a state's interstate banking regulation on the level and structure of bank CEO compensation. Using panel …

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Pay, Performance, and Turnover of Bank CEOs

Barro, Jason R. - 1990

for adjustments of compensation and bank assets and for possible dismissal of the CEO. For continuing CEOs, the change in …

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Corporate Governance and Risk Management at Unprotected Banks : National Banks in the 1890s

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2014

Managers' incentives may conflict with those of shareholders or creditors, particularly at leveraged, opaque banks. Bankers may abuse their control rights to give themselves excessive salaries, favored access to credit, or to take excessive risks that benefit themselves at the expense of...

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Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking : Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks

Efing, Matthias - 2014

We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail banking …

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Evaluating School-To-Work Programs Using the New NLSY

Neumark, David - 2000

A critical impediment to research on school-to-work programs has been the absence of large representative data sets with information on such programs. In contrast, the new NLSY (NLSY97) offers researchers opportunities to analyze direct evidence on school-to-work programs. In the NLSY97,...

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Job Training Through Turmoil

Barrera, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We follow the labor market outcomes of applicants who were randomized into job training a year and a half before the pandemic through the subsequent economic turmoil that resulted from COVID-19. Despite persistently improved labor market outcomes of training participants prior to March 2020, we...

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Wages, Employment, Training and Job Attachment in Low Wage Labor Marketsfor Women

Gustman, Alan L. - 1986

This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...

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The Antebellum "Surge" in Skill Differentials One More Time : New Evidence

Margo, Robert A. - 1985

Changes in the skill differential are often used by economic historians to proxy changes in income inequality. According to Jeffrey Williamson and Peter Lindert, American skill differentials rose sharply between 1820 and 1860, which they interpret as increasing income inequality. Using a large,...

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The Comparative Advantage of Educated Workers in Implementing New Technology : Some Empirical Evidence

Bartel, Ann P. - 1985

In this paper we estimate variants of a labor demand equation derived from a (restricted variable) cost function in which "experience"on a technology (proxied by the mean age of the capital stock) enters "non-neutrally." Our specification of the underlying cost function isbased on the hypothesis...

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