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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
- 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.
- 25 Sep 2016
- News
This company raised minimum wage to $70,000 — and it helped business
- 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
- 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.
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
Fast Food Workers Call for a Minimum Wage Hike
- 30 Apr 2013
- News
CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law
- 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
- Research Summary
Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital (joint with George Baker and Nancy Dean Beaulieu)
The accumulation of firm-specific knowledge improves firm productivity and employee reten-tion, by creating a wedge between what the employee is worth inside and outside the firm. How does the firm create incentives for investment in firm-specific human capital when... View Details
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How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay
By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of the wages of people in different... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Justice; Wage; Cross-cultural; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Employees; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, and Michael I. Norton. "How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay." Perspectives on Psychological Science 9, no. 6 (November 2014): 587–593.
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital
By: George P. Baker and Cristian Voicu