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We provide some examples of how quantile regression can be used to investigate heterogeneity in...
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We provide some examples of how quantile regression can be used to investigate heterogeneity in...
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We use data on the locations of the head offices of publicly traded U.S. firms...
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This paper is a description and summary of existing questions and sources of data on...
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We study the reaction of stock prices to announcements of reductions in force (RIFs) using...
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Excerpt] This book is an attempt to consolidate what we know about Personnel Economics by...
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This study empirically investigates the value employees place on stock options using information from the...
Mass layoffs have become an all too familiar occurrence in the United States; statistics indicate...
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[Excerpt] Every once in a while someone comes out with an important book concerning corporate...
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Many economists agree that the United States’ openness to competition and technological change raises our...
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We investigate the relationship between layoff announcements and CEO turnover over a 31-year period. We...
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This paper examines how the managerial labor market in nonprofit hospitals has adjusted to the...
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From 2001 to 2003, 5.3 million workers were displaced. Beyond quantifying the numbers of jobs...
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This article examines the compensation of top managers of nonprofits in the United States using...
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This examination of the Stock Market’s responsiveness to strikes looks specifically at strike actions that...
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The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs (with Marianne Bertrand), Faculty Publications - Human Resource Studies (2001)
Using the ExecuComp data set, which contains information on the five highest-paid executives in each...
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Quantile Regression (with Roger Koenker), Faculty Publications - Human Resource Studies (2001)
Quantile regression as introduced by Koenker and Bassett seeks to extend ideas of quantiles to...
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Considerable effort has been exercised in estimating mean returns to education while carefully considering biases...
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Although the nonprofit sector is enormous, we know little about how workers there are compensated....
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We study whether boards of directors concentrate on performance near compensation decision times rather than...
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This paper examines the connection between layoffs, executive pay, and stock prices. Firms that announce...
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Is executive compensation influenced by the composition of the board of directors? About 8% of...
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This paper further explores the work of both Michael Ransom and Emily Hoffman, who have...
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This paper uses data on over 4,600 layoff announcements in the U.S., covering each firm...
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[Excerpt] This paper studies reciprocal interlocks of boards of directors of large firms where an...
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[Excerpt] Studying compensation in the non-profit sector is difficult. In non-profit organizations, it is not...
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Who chooses what type of pay? The costs and benefits of “flexible” and “cafeteria-style” benefit...
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This paper considers the share price reaction to dividend, earnings, and stock split announcements over...
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This paper examines the gender wage gap among managers of nonprofit organizations using newly collected...
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Unions and Managerial Pay (with John DiNardo and Jorn-Steffen Pischke), Working Papers (1997)
Unions compress the wage distribution among workers covered by union contracts. We ask whether unions...