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hierarchical firm. In the state enterprise, promotion of employees through the internal hierarchy is determined by the workers …
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contest. Our analysis has implications for applications as diverse as the design of worker compensation, the awarding of …
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, nor allow for compensation of all damages. The reason is that the magnitudes of the accidents that we study are so big … take care even further because of the moral hazard problem. Another component of the compensation system is the 1969 … improve the situation with the apparent inadequacy of the system to meet the compensation demands from victims. The CLC forces …
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We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance-independent hourly wage....
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This paper studies the extent to which risk-taking incentives of CEOs and other governancefeatures in a range of years prior to the recent financial crisis were related to the write-downsof U.S. financial institutions during the crisis. We document that institutions whose CEOs hadparticularly...
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accounting return on equity (ROE). Further, banks with higher option compensationand with a larger fraction of compensation given …
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This paper presents a model of executive compensation in which the executive is risk averse and has specific knowledge … compensation. Notably, we find that relative performance evaluation is optimal only if the quality of specific knowledge is low. We …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment …
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of market-based approaches in the provision of public-sponsored training … programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets … disadvantaged youths. Multiple proxies for training quality are identified from bidding processes in which public and private …
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