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Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa
Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak... View Details
- Article
Amazon's $15 Minimum Wage Might Cost Some Workers
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Amazon's $15 Minimum Wage Might Cost Some Workers." Bloomberg Opinion (October 10, 2018).
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Higher minimum wages may make bad restaurants close
- 25 Sep 2016
- News
This company raised minimum wage to $70,000 — and it helped business
- 2006
- Article
Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms." NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics (2006): 65–114.
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
Fast Food Workers Call for a Minimum Wage Hike
- 2022
- Working Paper
A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk
By: Drew Keller, Katie Panella and George Serafeim
Currently the accounting system records employee wages as an expense in the income statement. However, paying below living wages can expose an organization to reputational and operational risks. In this paper, we offer an alternative conceptualization of the issue of... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Impact Accounting; Leverage; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Human Capital
Keller, Drew, Katie Panella, and George Serafeim. "A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-076, June 2022.
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 30 Apr 2013
- News
CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital
By: George P. Baker and Cristian Voicu
- 2021
- Working Paper
What Am I Worth? Wage Security and the (In)secure Self.
By: Lumumba Seegars, Erin M. Reid, Lakshmi Ramarajan and S. Lee
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Pay of Finance Professors
By: Claire Célérier, Boris Vallée and Alexey Vasilenko
This paper documents the existence of a significant wage finance premium in academia, and investigates its underlying mechanism. By exploiting an extensive dataset covering wages, publications and socio-demographics for 60,000 public-university faculty from all fields,... View Details
Célérier, Claire, Boris Vallée, and Alexey Vasilenko. "The Pay of Finance Professors." Working Paper, 2024.
- 02 Nov 2005
- Conference Presentation
Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital
By: George P. Baker, Nancy D. Beaulieu and Cristian Voicu
- 1998
- Chapter
Wage Bargaining, Labour Markets and Macroeconomic Performance in the Netherlands
By: Gunnar Trumbull, Anne Wren, Bob Hancke and David Soskice