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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Compensating Differentials"”.
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An Analysis Of Shift Work: Compensating Differentials And Local Economic Conditions
The theory of compensating differentials asserts that workers facing undesirable work conditions, such as night shift work, should receive compensating wage differentials. The theory assumes that workers can easily find jobs with desirable characteristics; thus, compensating wages are necessary to …
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Early employees of venture-backed startups : selection and wage differentials
… cross-sectionally observed startup wage premium: compensating differentials and selection. The startup wage premium is robust after identifying and controlling for worker preferences for the three firm attributes (firm reputation, impactful work, and job security) that most strongly predict MIT …
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Three essays on the impacts of income taxes
… those industries. This chapter recognizes that compensating differentials are a function of the income tax rate and uses this observation to introduce a new methodology for estimating compensating differentials with a specific application to the estimation of the Value of a Statistical Life …
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Beyond Wages and Employment: Do Minimum Wages Affect Management Practices?
… of management practices and job quality. Compensating differentials theory posits that low-wage employers will diminish non-wage amenities to counteract the added labor costs. Conversely, the high-road strategy literature anticipates firms to enhance crucial aspects of job quality to …
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Essays on Executive Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment.
… the recent growth in CEO pay. We estimate the compensating differentials in CEO pay for increasing risk of dismissal. Our estimates suggest that CEOs are paid 2-4% premium in pay for a percentage point increase in the risk of dismissal, which is manifest in the form of increased cash payments. …
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Using laboratory experiments to study otherwise unobservable labor market interactions
… four given incentives respectively, and then use compensating differentials to elicit their preferences for different incentives. Therefore, based on the lab data from our sample of Chinese university students, we are able to study their productivity response to various incentives as well as their …