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How much does your boss make? : the effects of salary comparisons
Cullen, Zoë B.; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2018
The vast majority of the pay inequality in an organization comes from differences in pay between employees and their bosses. But are employees aware of these pay disparities? Are employees demotivated by this inequality? To address these questions, we conducted a field experiment with a sample...
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A Theory of Wealth Accumulation Differences Considering Modern Net Savings Gradualism : The Impact of Unresolved Long Run Differences in Wealth Accumulation on the Annualized Net S...
Curtis Jr, James E - 2017
Modern pressures on median income workers to cost minimize and strategically invest, including a low interest-earning bank savings account, suggest the possibility of stagnation in closing the gap of wealth differences among groups. James Curtis Jr annualizes salaries of interns, employees and...
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Gender sorting and the glass ceiling in high tech
Fernandez, Roberto M.; Campero, Santiago - 2012
Past studies of gender and hierarchy document that the proportion of women declines as one looks up levels of the organizational hierarchy. With few exceptions, studies have conceived of the glass ceiling as reflecting disparities in internal promotion. Recent research has questioned this...
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Social interactions in the labor market
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280680
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Social interactions in the labor market
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379499
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The firm as the locus of social comparisons: Internal labor markets versus up-or-out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012
We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion hierarchies: (i) internal labor markets, in which agents have a...
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Perverse incentives at the banks? : evidence from a natural experiment
Agarwal, Sumit; Wang, Faye H. - 2009 - Draft: August 20, 2009
Incentive provision is a central question in modern economic theory. During the run up to the financial crisis, many banks attempted to encourage loan underwriting by giving out incentive packages to loan officers. Using a unique data set on small business loan officer compensation from a major...
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Optimizing incentive plan design: A case study
Levenson, Alec; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; Benson, George - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
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Low interest rates and executive risk-taking incentives : evidence from the United States
Castro, Paula; Tascon, Maria T.; Castaño, Francisco J.; … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 24 (2021) 4, pp. 324-354
incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility … increase the managers’ short-term risk-taking incentives and that those incentives contribute to the risk effectively taken by …
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Incentives to invest in short-term vs. long-term contracts : evidence from a natural experiment
Dubois, Pierre; Vukina, Tomislav - 2009
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