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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

insider econometric evidence on the structure and the incentive effects of fixed base salaries, paid bonuses, and agreed … bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German … company are analyzed. The main findings are: (1) base salaries increase significantly with age, whereas bonuses decrease with …

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

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Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2008

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...

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Maintaining (locus of) control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages

Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia R. - 2010

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2002

make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace

Dur, Robert - 2008

altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees …

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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches

Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - 2012

The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers with the same education...

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Who gains when workers train? Training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2000

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

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Changes in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany during a Period of Rising Wage Inequality 1999-2006: Was it Discrimination in the Returns to Human Capital?

Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010

In this article I analyze the changes in the gender wage gap in the western region, eastern region and in reunified Germany during the period 1999 - 2006. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and implement two alternative decomposition methodologies; the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991)...

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