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What Happens Within Firms? A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Compensation Policies
Prendergast, Canice - 1996
with the compensation policies of firms. This literature is considered from the perspective of three major theories: human capital, learning, and incentives. Considerable empirical work has addressed each of these theories with some success. However, our understanding of the effect of...
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Within-Job Wage Inequality : Performance Pay and Job Relatedness
Tang, Rongsheng - 2020
Over the past few decades, we find that about 80% of the widening residual wage inequality to be within jobs. We propose performance-pay incidence and job relatedness as two primary factors driving within-job inequality and embed them into a sorting equilibrium framework. We show that...
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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Card, David - 2005
In many European countries sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a large matched employer-employee data set from Spain to study the effects of firm-level contracting...
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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Sectoral contracts in many European countries set wage floors for different occupation groups. In addition, employers often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions...
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …
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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use …
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Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2004
In this paper, we first describe the 1990 DEED, the most recently constructed matched employer-employee data set for the United States that contains detailed demographic information on workers (most notably, information on education). We then use the data from manufacturing establishments in the...
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …
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