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- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
financial resources available. In spite of improving conditions, a wage gap has persisted for more than thirty years. Professional women currently earn approximately 73 percent of what their male... View Details
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
adjust the details of grants (e.g., "I think now is a great time to load up on my option compensations so let's do a big grant now ") or to respond opportunistically to those details (e.g., "I really need an extra penny of View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should pay... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible for the inferior investments, as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
income mobility has not declined in the US, said "This metric of income inequality (ignoring mobility) causes meaningless chasing of rainbows Folks move up through the quintiles of earning all the time (therefore mitigating the issue... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit By: Luca, Dara Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract—We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Monetary Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Has greater turbulence among firms fueled rising wage instability in the U.S.? Gottschalk and Moffitt [1994] find that rising earnings instability was responsible... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
It's well understood that cash bonuses often motivate a sales force to step up its game, but they don't work in every scenario and in some cases can backfire, a new study from Harvard Business School has found. The key variable? Whether the sales rep had to do... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
a charity, in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with relatively muted targeting behavior. When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
For some gig workers, losing the flexibility to set their own schedules is equivalent to taking a 17 percent pay cut, according to new research that explores the wages and work habits of DoorDash drivers. App-based platforms that allow... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
as engineering, computer science, accounting, or finance—are much more likely to lead to a college-level job with a healthy earnings premium. However, graduates with only a bachelor’s degree in majors such as arts and humanities,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
could be better off financially in the future compared to other firms, it does not mean that the action is enough to make a meaningful contribution to the problem. For example, a firm might be better off by lifting wages for lower-level... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
shortage of European immigrants, US employers recruited Mexican and Canadian immigrants and introduced labor-saving technologies.” Why did European immigrants not reduce wages and employment of native-born workers? Likewise, why did the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
track how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention. "If employees go off welfare and start earning wages and paying taxes, there's an inverse relationship. They end up... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
the business to 'roughly' understand what a person was earning . Each role was assigned to a pay range. The greater percentage of that range was awarded dependent on performance, benchmarked through goals and objectives agreed earlier in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
embedded in the local network while also having access to global markets. It bridges the two worlds, helping the cluster maintain its competitive advantage. In one Brenta firm, skilled workers translate international designers' sketches... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing power of carbon fiber... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace