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Immigrant earnings: a longitudinal analysis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2005
This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the …
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Returns to Inventors
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - 2010
A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...
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Verringern Management-Entlohnungskosten die Agency-Kosten? Empirische Evidenz von netzwerkorientierten und marktorientierten Unternehmenskontrollsystemen
Crespi-Cladera, Rafel; Gispert, Carles; Renneboog, Luc - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 2, pp. 234-246
In the UK, the top executive remuneration policy is not geared towards the creation of value but compensation revisions are rather driven by changes in corporate size, measured by sales growth. This suggests that managing larger firms requires special managerial skills. Even in UK companies with...
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294492
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291414
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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain
Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2007
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …
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Immigrant wage and employment assimilation: A comparison of methods
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - 2012
We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001-2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore suffered...
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Competition of politicians for wages and office
Gersbach, Hans - 2003
We examine a model in which two politicians compete for office and for wages. Their remunerations are either set by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422108
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Performance pay and earnings: evidence from personnel records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Riddell, Chris - 2006
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained and hours worked on a performance pay contract. Using these data, we estimate the effects of...
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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David; Van … - 2016
attributable to the human capital of the highestpaid workers, a group we interpret as representing the managers of the firm. And a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531736