the tradeoff between insurance and incentives. I then offer econometric and case-study evidence suggesting that this …

corporate finance literature is that executive perks are a form of agency or private benefit and a way for managers to …

While U.S. legislation prohibits employers from sharing information about their employees' compensation with each other …

employees' greater willingness to bear risk. We discuss implications for research as well as for managers and policy makers …We examine whether startups attract employees with different pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives than small or large … across firm types. Using data on over 10,000 U.S. R&D employees, we find that startup employees place lower importance on job …

Arguably the fundamental problem faced by employers is how to elicit effort from employees. Most models suggest that … employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on … heterogeneity across employees, and that is to screen job candidates to find workers with a stronger work ethic who require less …