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Misallocation of talent in competitive labor markets

Ferreira, Daniel Bernardo Soares; Nikolowa, Radoslawa - 2015

We develop a model in which competition in the labor market may produce worker-firm matches that are inferior to those obtained in the absence of competition. This result contrasts with the conventional wisdom that competition among employers allocates scarce talent efficiently. In a model in...

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Training and search on the job

Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016

The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...

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Labour regulations in India : rationalising the laws governing wages

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017

In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer suggestions for improvement. In doing so, we analyze the provisions in the relevant ILO Conventions and look at the laws and practice in selected developed and emerging...

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The wage incentive to management : a comparison across European economies

Biagetti, Marco; Leonida, Leone; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2012

We define the wage incentive to management as the wage premium the manager earns because of his/her supervising role. We adopt an approach based on what if questions and estimate the premium at different quantiles of the distribution of wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we...

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Motivate and select : relational contracts with persistent types

Nikolowa, Radoslawa - 2014

We develop a model of relational contracts with moral hazard and asymmetric persistent information about an employee's type. We find that the form of the optimal contract depends on the job characteristics as well as the distribution of employees' talent. Bonus contracts are more likely to be...

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Measuring gender differences in information sharing using network analysis : the case of the Austrian interlocking directorship network in 2009

Drago, Carlo; Aliberti, Livia Amidani; Carbonai, Davide - 2014

In recent literature a relevant problem has been the relationship between career/personal contact networks and different career paths. In addition, the recent advances in social capital theory have shown the way in which networks impact on personal careers. In particular women's careers appear...

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Female corporate leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean region : representation and firm-level outcomes

Flabbi, Luca; Piras, Claudia; Abrahams, Scott - 2016

This paper collects an original database of publicly listed companies to determine prevailing gender ratios among board members and executives in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC). Women are as under-represented in LAC as in the United States, but much less so in the Caribbean. It is...

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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002

&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries' profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after …

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Executive compensation : facts

Clementi, Gian Luca; Cooley, Thomas F. - 2010 - This version: October 6, 2009

strongly to innovations in shareholder wealth; measured as dollar changes in compensation, incentives have strengthened over …

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Experimental evidence on credit constraints

Bando Grana, Rosangela; Uribe, Claudia - 2016

Credit constraints are central to development economics theory. However, there is scant direct evidence that supports the existence of such constraints. Traditional tests observe how consumption changes after an unexpected income shock. Such changes can also result from myopic behavior or...

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