Showing 1 - 10 of 1,460
Managers often use tournament incentive schemes which motivate workers to compete for the top, compete to avoid the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340563
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001408121
We analyze the consequences of bonus taxes, limited deductibility of bonuses from company pro ts and a corporate income tax (CIT) in a principal-agent model and explore how these tax instruments affect managerial incentives and how they change the design of incentive contracts used in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344626
Using a simple symmetric principal-agent model of two banks, this paper studies the effects of both bailouts and bonus taxes on risk taking and managerial compensation. In contrast to existing literature, we assume financial institutions to be systemic only on a collective basis, implying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489295
To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where firms compete …, while the most able managers obtain a wage increase, less able managers are faced with a reduction in wages. Hence our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341147
The paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of managers and their incentives on the behavior of group … particular if the managers payoff does not depend on the members behavior. Different incentives schemes induce the managers to … lead the groups into different directions but incentivized managers are less capable of inducing very high or low contest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340540
This paper examines job polarization at the level of local labor markets in Germany over a 30-year period. The major explanation of job polarization is skill biased technological change (SBTC): new technologies are complementary to high paying jobs but substitute workers in routine manual jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340528
This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341095
This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340568
. Only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post competition generate the maximum matching on a realized network. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343782