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Female directors and employment stability: A longitudinal analysis of the roles of ultimate owners and managers’ incentive compensation

Australian Journal of Management, 2023
This study examines the moderating role of ultimate owners in the relationship between female directors and employment stability, and tests whether this moderation can be achieved through a mediation process whereby female directors reduce top managers ...
Ming-Yuan Chen, Yi-ting Wang
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Designing Deadlines

The American Economic Review, 2022
I study how an organization should manage a project of uncertain scope, when it is advised by a privately informed expert who prefers to prolong his employment.
Erik Madsen
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Managerial Attributes, Incentives, and Performance

The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2020
We examine the relative importance of observed and unobserved firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in determining executive compensation incentives and firm policy, risk, and performance. First, we decompose executive incentives into time-variant
J. Coles, Zhichuan Frank Li
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Preferences, Inequities, and Incentives in the Substitute Teacher Labor Market

Social Science Research Network, 2022
We examine the labor supply decisions of substitute teachers – a large, on-demand market with broad shortages and inequitable supply. In 2018, Chicago Public Schools implemented a targeted bonus program designed to reduce unfilled teacher absences in ...
M. Kraft, Megan Lane Conklin, Grace T. Falken   +2 more
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Employee stock ownership plans and firm productivity in China

Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2022
A growing number of Chinese firms motivate their employees through employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Using a sample of listed firms in China, this paper examines the impact of ESOPs on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP), as well as the ...
Haitong Li, Ziang Lin, Bo Huang
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China's Closed Pyramidal Managerial Labor Market and the Stock Price Crash Risk

, 2018
: Managers of China's state-owned firms work in a closed pyramidal managerial labor market. They enjoy non-transferable benefits if they choose to stay within this system. The higher up are they in this labor market hierarchy (their political ranks), the
Donghua Chen, Jeong‐Bon Kim, Oliver Zhen Li, Shangkun Liang   +3 more
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Financial Reporting Comparability and Accounting-Based Relative Performance Evaluation in the Design of CEO Cash Compensation Contracts

Accounting Review, 2020
This study examines how cross-firm differences in financial reporting practices affect how peer-firm accounting information is used to evaluate CEO performance.
J. Nam
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Keeping Up with the Joneses during an Economic Crisis: The Effect of Different Types of Pay Cuts on Employee Performance

Journal of Management Accounting Research
Many firms implement pay cuts to reduce labor costs during organizational crises and there are different ways to distribute pay cuts among employees.
Mandy M. Cheng, Suyun Wu, Di Yang
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Working for References

Social Science Research Network, 2021
We analyze the incentive and welfare consequences of job references in a large economy marked by moral hazard, limited liability, exogenous job separation, and structural unemployment.
Samuel Häfner, Curtis R. Taylor
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The Effect of State Minimum Wage Increases on CEO Compensation: Evidence of Labor Donation in Nonprofit Organizations

Accounting Review
In this paper, we test the “labor donation” hypothesis, which posits that intrinsically motivated individuals willingly accept lower compensation to work in nonprofit organizations (NPOs).
S. Balsam, Connie X. Mao, Min Xu, Y. Zhang   +3 more
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