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Social norms and firms’ discriminatory pay-setting

Janssen, Simon; Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; … - 2012

This study analyzes the relationship between discriminatory social attitudes and the variation of within-firm pay gaps by combining data on regional votes on gender equality laws with a data set of multi-establishments firms and their workers. The data set allows us for the first time to study...

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Social attitudes on gender equality and firms' discriminatory pay-setting

Janssen, Simon; Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; … - 2014

We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...

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Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting

Janssen, Simon - 2014

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Gender gaps and the role of bosses

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Holub, Felix - 2021

This paper investigates the contribution of managers to gender gaps and analyzes whether the over-representation of men in management positions puts women at a disadvantage. Relying on personnel data from one of the largest European manufacturing firms, we separate out the factors explaining...

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Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...

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Can higher rewards lead to less effort? Incentive reversal in teams

Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 72-83

alters her best-response function and, as a result, removes other agents’ incentives to exert effort as their contributions …

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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete more …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

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Pay Dispersion and Work Performance

Bucciol, Alessandro; Piovesan, Marco - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012

The effect of intra-firm pay dispersion on work performance is controversial and the empirical evidence is mixed. High pay dispersion may act as an extra incentive for employees' effort or it may reduce motivation and team cohesiveness. These effects can also coexist and the prevalence of one...

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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … distorts incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

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Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams

Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …

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