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This paper studies the employment and income effects of a federal proposal in 2016 to expand overtime coverage to additionally cover salaried workers earning between $455 and $913 per week ($23,660 and $47,476 per annum). Although the policy was unexpectedly nullified a week before its proposed...
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This paper examines the effect of wage variation on individual wages. The results reveal that wage variation by … literature on the issue, both results are consistent with the notion of wage compensation for risk-averse workers. However, our … results show that the impact of wage-variation on wages is not reasonably described by a single parameter for all individuals …
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This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to differentiate between different reasons for interruptions as well as between various compensation components....
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Brazil's public-sector wage bill is comparatively high. It grows inertially and competeswith other spending …. Rightsizing the wage bill could stimulate administrative efficiencyand bring more equity into a system where public employees earn … reviewof the compensation structure should rationalize the multitude if wage grids, mergeallowances into the base wage, and …
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This paper examines the relation between managerial power and compensation for Chief Executive Officers of S&P 500 companies from 1993 through 2012. We find that more-powerful CEOs earn more than less-powerful CEOs. We refer to this additional compensation as a “power premium” and...
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Contrary to the entrenchment view of executive compensation, I find that CEOs with more control over the firm, proxied by higher equity ownership, have smaller compensation packages and are less likely to have severance contracts. Despite lower pay, these CEOs have longer tenure and their...
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This paper examines the effect of wage variation on individual wages. The results reveal that wage variation by … literature on the issue, both results are consistent with the notion of wage compensation for risk-averse workers. However, our … results show that the impact of wage-variation on wages is not reasonably described by a single parameter for all individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870226
efficiency-wage hypothesis. (1) Does paying workers higher relative wages ex ante result in better ex post actual performance … paying higher wages outweigh the costs? The data enable us to perform powerful tests of wage-performance relations because … performance (measured by customer satisfaction, revenues, and profit) is increasing in the relative wage, and that higher …
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The level of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) pay responds asymmetrically to good and bad news about the CEO's ability. The average CEO captures approximately half of the surpluses from good news, implying CEOs and shareholders have roughly equal bargaining power. In contrast, the average CEO bears...
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This study investigates the relation between the use of explicit employment agreements (EA) and CEO compensation. Overall, our findings are broadly consistent with the predictions of Klein, Crawford, and Alchian (1978) that an EA is used to induce CEOs to make firm-specific human capital...
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