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Compensation & Benefits Review, 2012
In response to Securities and Exchange Commission requirements, most companies have eliminated the more obvious types of corporate exposure to imprudent risk taking linked to pay, such as megagrants of stock options, performance incentives based entirely on top-line growth or significant “guaranteed” severance packages. Risk assessments can dive deeper,
Eric Marquardt, Nick Dunlap
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In response to Securities and Exchange Commission requirements, most companies have eliminated the more obvious types of corporate exposure to imprudent risk taking linked to pay, such as megagrants of stock options, performance incentives based entirely on top-line growth or significant “guaranteed” severance packages. Risk assessments can dive deeper,
Eric Marquardt, Nick Dunlap
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Are Chinese workers compensated for occupational risk? [PDF]
Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015 This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of compensating wage differentials for occupational risks in urban labour markets. Drawing on two datasets – one national for all workers and one from the Pearl River Delta for migrant workers – we examine the relationship between wages and ...
Haining Wang +2 more
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Executive compensation and compensation risk: evidence from technology firms
Managerial Auditing Journal, 2013PurposeThe purpose of this research is to investigate factors that contribute to technology firms paying higher compensation than non-technology firms, and why the mix of compensation at technology firms is different than the compensation packages at non-technology firms.Design/methodology/approachThis research used a sample of 1,009 firm-year ...
Jimmy Yu +3 more
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Risk compensation—the case of road lighting
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 1999The hypothesis of this article is that drivers will not adjust their behavior, i.e. drivers are not expected to increase their speed, reduce their concentration or travel more when road lighting is installed. The hypothesis was based on previous research showing that road lighting reduces road accidents and that average driving speeds do not increase ...
T, Assum +3 more
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Wage compensation for risk: The case of Turkey [PDF]
Safety Science, 2014 In this article, I estimate the premium associated with fatal and non-fatal risk within broad industry categories, using official figures provided by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and wage data from the 2010 and 2011 Household Labor Force Surveys. The results show only positive and significant fatal risk premiums in the manufacturing sector,
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2011
Abstract : The principal justification for combat compensation is to recognize military personnel who face significant combat risk. This paper demonstrates that there is only a weak relationship between the risk faced by personnel and the combat-related compensation they receive.
Stanley A. Horowitz +7 more
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Abstract : The principal justification for combat compensation is to recognize military personnel who face significant combat risk. This paper demonstrates that there is only a weak relationship between the risk faced by personnel and the combat-related compensation they receive.
Stanley A. Horowitz +7 more
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Unions and Risk: Their Impact on the Level of Compensation for Fatal Risk
Economica, 1996This paper distinguishes between the premia for fatal Cisk in jobs covered by union-negotiated terms and conditions and the premia in uncovered jobs. It employs a model which allows for the endogeneity of both covered status and fatal job risk. Values of a life in both the covered and uncovered sectors are computed.
Sandy, Robert, Elliott, Robert F
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Risk Compensation in Cities at Risk
2013Cities face many risks. This book focuses mainly on natural hazards. This chapter explores what perceptions of, and responses to, natural hazards have in common with society’s way of coping with risk more generally. It proffers four framing devices. First a categorisation of risk: is it directly perceptible, perceptible only with the help of scientific
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An Empirical Analysis of Risk Preferences, Compensation Risk, and Employee Outcomes [PDF]
, 2011 We use the NBER Shared Capitalism Database comprised of more than 40,000 employee surveys from 14 firms to explore whether a close match between workers’ risk preferences and the riskiness of their compensation packages relates to improved employee outcomes including lower absenteeism, lower shirking, lower probability of voluntary turnover, greater ...
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana +2 more
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Oocytes for Research: Reevaluating Risks and Compensation
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2011In “Risk of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome in Egg Donation,” Ellison and Meliker (2011) argue that the risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS)—a sometimes lethal reaction to ovulation-i...
Robin N, Fiore, Kathryn M, Hinsch
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