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COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending their time under lockdown. We find that mothers' paid...
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but also by subjective measures of plant labor productivity and financial performance. Union effects on training are … for labor productivity and the firm's bottom line. While some negative effects of multiple unionism at the workplace now …
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COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending their time under lockdown. We find that mothers' paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253646
This paper provides the first study of compensation and pay-for-performance for top executives at non-profit endowments and foundations. Using detailed IRS filings over the 2009-2017 period, we find that pay packages of Chief Investment Officers (CIOs) depend more heavily on bonuses than do...
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", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17% compared to less able. We show that the managers' incentive scheme is …
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measure of establishment labour productivity. In addition, the implications of training for the firm's bottom line are … labour productivity outcome and, in the case of the earlier survey, for the financial performance indicator as well. However …
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This paper investigates how training firms retain their apprenticeship graduates if they are embedded in labor markets without the frictions that the new training literature considers to be essential for investments in general human capital. We hypothesize that performance pay schemes are an...
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This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...
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. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … average productivity by 14%, whereas introducing a tournament increases it by 24%. Both effects are heterogeneous: rank …
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