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compensation decisions do not subscribe to conventional thinking on incentive creation.To be sure, at all but one of these …
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This study analyzes the relationship between discriminatory social attitudes and the variation of within-firm pay gaps by combining data on regional votes on gender equality laws with a data set of multi-establishments firms and their workers. The data set allows us for the first time to study...
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We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...
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Clawbacks are contractual provisions in executive compensation contracts that allow for an ex post recoupment of variable pay if certain triggering conditions are met. As a result of regulatory responses to financial crises and corporate scandals as well as of growing shareholder pressure to...
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Using a sample of more than 1,500 US public firms in the period 1998-2016, we examine how firms endogenously adjust CEO compensation contracts when they become financially distressed. The link between compensation and equity-based measures of firm performance is positive and strong prior to...
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We examine how incentive compensation for nonfamily executives in family firms differs from incentive compensation for …. Although incentive pay and total pay are lower in family firms, nonfamily executives receive safer pay and enjoy greater job …
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, which in turn should influence the design of incentive compensation. However, there is no empirical evidence on whether and … how the incentive compensation of nonfamily executives differs between family and nonfamily firms. Our study intends to … ownership all contribute to the pay differences. Although incentive pay and total pay are lower in family firms, nonfamily …
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This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive …
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other services. We also find suggestive evidence of boards “layering” new equity incentive plans over existing ones, thereby …
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, generally implicit assumption that managers cannot undo their incentive packages, (ii) the standard modeling practice of …
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