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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
Garnero, Andrea - 2013
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity...
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Technological Change, Job Tasks, and CEO Pay
Kotter, Jason D. - 2015
This paper examines how changes in the composition of the human capital of the workforce impact the CEO. Over the last fifty years, technological change has caused the tasks workers perform to shift from routine to nonroutine work. I estimate that these changes in the workforce caused CEO pay to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034634
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The heterogeneous effects of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and profits
Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, François - 2013
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738766
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Birds of a feather earn together : gender and peer effects at the workplace
Messina, Julián; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2024
Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed...
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Wage Differentials, Fairness, and Social Comparison : An Experimental Study of the Co-Employment of Permanent and Temporary Agency Workers
Alewell, Dorothea; Nicklisch, Andreas - 2006
Recent experimental literature in labor economics shows that fairness concerns make a substantial difference for … working decisions. Our study systematically explores how the existence of multiple fairness foci influences wage setting and … acceptance thresholds. Particularly, we focus on the effect of horizontal fairness concerns, i.e., the wage comparison among …
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
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Wage dispersion and firm productivity in different working environments
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2009
of wage dispersion, the incentive effects of "tournaments" dominate (are dominated by) "fairness" considerations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817906
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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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Earnings Dispersion and the Stock Market Reaction to Aggregate Earnings News
Subasi, Musa - 2011
Using monthly and quarterly cross-sectional dispersion in firm level earnings news as a proxy for investor uncertainty about the implications of current aggregate earnings for future discount rates, I find that higher investor uncertainty leads to a lower stock market reaction to aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125333
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Executive-Employee Pay Gap and Academic Directors – A Chinese Study
Fan, Hong - 2019
This study investigates the impact of professor-directors on the executive-employee pay gap in public Chinese firms. University professors are generally believed to have higher standards of ethical and social responsibility by the public. Consistent with this view, we find there is a negative...
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