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Incentives for managers and inequality among workers : evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana (contributor); Barankay, Iwan (contributor) - 2006
. -- managerial incentives ; targeting ; selection ; earnings inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304676
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The gender pay gap in top corporate jobs in Denmark : glass ceilings, sticky floors or both?
Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - 2010
disappears when controlling for observed individual and firm characteristics and unobserved individual heterogeneity. For CEOs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945989
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Performance-related : pay and gender wage differences
Kangasniemi, Mari; Kauhanen, Antti - 2011
We study the impact of performance-related pay (PRP) on gender wage differences using Finnish linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for unobserved person and firm effects, we find that bonuses increase women's earnings slightly less than men's, but the economic significance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008992073
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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions
Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337995
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Wage dispersion and workers' effort
Rivas, María Fernanda; Sutter, Matthias - 2008
We study experimentally the relationship between intra-firm wage dispersion chosen by principals and workers' performance. Principals show a preference for more egalitarian wage schemes, and workers are negatively influenced by high levels of wage inequality. -- wage dispersion ; effort ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733225
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Gender pay gaps among highly educated professionals : compensation components do matter
Grund, Christian - 2014
Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male-female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345123
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Worker attitudes towards employee ownership, profit sharing and variable pay
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph R. - 2011
Using the NBER Shared Capitalism Database comprised of over 40,000 employee surveys from 14 firms, we investigate worker attitudes towards employee ownership, profit sharing, and variable pay. Specifically, our study uses detailed survey questions on preferences over profit sharing, forms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273085
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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting : productivity, preferences and gender
Dohmen, Thomas (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor) - 2006
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …-specific risk attitudes. Seventh, self-selection is also affected by personality differences. Finally, reported effort is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289888
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Who Gets the Carrot and Who Gets the Stick? Evidence of Gender Disparities in Executive Remuneration
Kulich, Clara - 2012
This paper offers a new explanation of the gender pay gap in leadership positions by examining the relationship between managerial bonuses and company performance. Drawing on findings of gender studies, agency theory, and the leadership literature, we argue that the gender pay gap is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116522
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Performance Pay and Multi-Dimensional Sorting : Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2006
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …-specific risk attitudes. Seventh, self-selection is also affected by personality differences. Finally, reported effort is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780523