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Equilibrium wage dispersion with worker and employer heterogeneity

Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Robin, Jean-Marc - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2002

We construct and estimate an equilibrium search model with on–the–job–search. Firms make take–it–or–leave–it wage offers to workers conditional on their characteristics and they can respond to the outside job offers received by their employees. Unobserved worker productive...

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Intra-firm wage dispersion and fîrm performance: a review and empirical tests on Belgian data

Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert Alain; Rycx, Francois - In: Brussels Economic Review 46 (2003) 4, pp. 5-30

The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we survey the theoretical and empirical literature regarding the impact of intra-firm wage dispersion on firm performance. Next, we examine the nature of this relationship in the Belgian private sector, using a unique combination of two large-scale...

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Glass ceilings and glass doors : internal and external hiring in an organizational hierarchy

Fernandez, Roberto M.; Abraham, Mabel Botelho - 2011

With few exceptions, past research on the glass ceiling has assumed that the barriers to women’s advancement in organizations reflect sex differences in internal promotion processes. This assumption, however, has never before been the subject of close scrutiny. We examine sex differences in...

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Monkey Bars and Ladders : The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021

The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human resource concepts. These tests often need detailed firm-specific data. Repetition and comparison of results is key in finding...

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Tenure, Business Cycle and the Wage-Setting Process

Arozamena, Leandro; Centeno, Mário - 2001

We analyze the interaction between job tenure and external labor market conditions in wage determination. First, we introduce a model that combines job matching with business-cycle effects. As the employment relationship progresses, the worker appropriates a portion of the value of the...

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A Note on Dual Internal Labor Markets and Wages of Temporary Workers: Evidence from Linked-Employer-Employee Data

Pfeifer, Christian - In: Journal of Labor Research 35 (2014) 2, pp. 133-142

I use linked employer-employee data from the German Federal Statistical Office to estimate within-firm wage differentials between temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and workers with permanent contracts in the context of dual internal labor markets. Wage-tenure profiles of permanent...

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The Dispersion of Bonus Payments within and between Firms

Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2017

We explore the dispersion of bonus payments of managers within and between five large firms from the German chemical sector. We use data from a yearly salary survey in these firms during the observation period 2008 to 2013. Bonus payments account for 20 percent of base salaries on average. Both...

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The dispersion of bonus payments within and between firms

Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2017

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Wage structure and firm performance

CECI-RENAUD, N.; COTTET, V. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2012

This study describes the human resources management along several dimensions, based on administrative data (DADS and tax data): wage schedule both in terms of level but also dispersion, stability of the workforce, proportion of different qualifications and age, share of subsidized jobs ... A...

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Optimal Incentive Contracts when Workers envy their Boss

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2004

A worker's utility may increase with his income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income. This … article uses a principal-agent model to study profit-maximizing contracts when a worker envies his employer. Envy tightens the … applications of our theoretical work: envy can explain why a lower-level worker is awarded stock options, why incentive pay is …

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