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Complementarity of performance pay and task allocation

Hong, Bryan; Küng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2016

between performance pay incentives and decentralization of decision-making authority for tasks. To address endogeneity …

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Curbing cream-skimming : evidence on enrolment incentives

Courty, Pascal (contributor); Kim, Do Han (contributor); … - 2008

Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e … enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices' for serving different demographic subgroups of clients, influence case … change the composition of their enrollee populations in response to changes in the incentives, increasing the relative …

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The value relevance of disclosing a single corporate target : an explorative empirical analysis

Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

This paper explores the relationship between disclosing corporate targets and value creation. Our empirical results show the value relevance of voluntarily disclosing a low number of targets, whereas there is a clear additional positive effect of disclosing exactly one corporate target in the...

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Does the statutory overtime premium discourage long workweeks?

Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Using a pooled data set consisting of 20 annual observations on each of eleven major industry groups, I estimate the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from...

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The consumption value of higher education

Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2009

The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual's educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...

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The causes and economic consequences of envy

Cabrales, Antonio - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 4, pp. 371-386

In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...

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Where to go? : workers' reasons to quit and intra- versus interindustry job mobility

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005

This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...

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Gender and dynamic agency : theory and evidence on the compensation of top executives

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia; Prados, María José - 2015

We document three new facts about gender differences in executive compensation. First, female executives receive a lower share of incentive pay in total compensation relative to males. This difference accounts for 93 percent of the gender gap in total pay. Second, the compensation of female...

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Is bigger still better? : the decline of the wage premium at large firms

Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2009

This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical evidence supports several explanations for the decline in the size premium. First, there has...

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Racial Differences in Availability of Fringe Benefits as an Explanation for the Unexplained Black-White Wage Gap for Males in US

Leping, Kristjan-Olari - 2007

The US black-white wage gap is an issue that has attracted thorough investigation, but so far the corresponding gap for fringe benefits has not received sufficient attention. Although ethnic differences in fringe benefits could affect wage differences, previous analysis of ethnic wage gaps in...

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