This chapter summarizes the empirical and theoretical research on executive compensation
and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of pay practices (and trends in …

This paper surveys two related pieces of the labor-economics literature: incentive pay and
careers in organizations. In the discussion of incentives, I first summarize theory and …

This study comprehensively evaluated the links between systems of High Performance Work
Practices and firm performance. Results based on a national sample of nearly one thousand …

The field of strategic human resource management (SHRM) has been criticized for lacking a
solid theoretical foundation. This article documents that, contrary to this criticism, the SHRM …

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers from more than five
hundred thousand employing firms. We decompose real total annual compensation per …

This paper provides an overview of the existing theoretical and empirical work on the
provision of incentives. It reviews the costs and benefits of many types of pay-for …

This paper reexamines the empirical basis for two" facts" that seem to be found in most cross-
section studies of immigrant earnings:(1) the earnings of immigrants grow rapidly as they …

Empirical research has typically rested on the assumption that board independence from
management enhances board effectiveness in administering firms. The present study shows …

Using a large sample of college and university faculty, we studied the effects of wage
inequality on satisfaction, productivity, and collaboration. Results show that the greater the …

Through a meta-analytic review of the empirical literature on the determinants of CEO pay,
this study tests the hypothesized relationships between firm size, performance, and CEO …