They don't really care about us: the impact of perceived vertical pay disparity on employee well-being

S Filippi, BG Salvador Casara, K Peters… - European Journal of …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
The gap in pay between those at the top of organizations and other organizational members
continues to grow. In this paper, we tested the link between the perception of this vertical pay …

Interrelation between human capital management and ESG engagement: evidence from S&P 500 firms

X Cai, H **ang, I Neskorоdieva… - Humanities and Social …, 2024 - nature.com
This study investigates the relationship between human capital management strategies and
corporate sustainability commitments while also examining the moderating role of CEO …

Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets

X Yang, J Wang, S Chen - China Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explores the impacts of CEO-to-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and
market dynamics using an experimental methodology. We employed two laboratory asset …

Leveraging Large Language Models to Democratize Access to Costly Financial Datasets for Academic Research

JJ Wang, VX Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.02065, 2024 - arxiv.org
Unequal access to costly datasets essential for empirical research has long hindered
researchers from disadvantaged institutions, limiting their ability to contribute to their fields …

Pay Ratio Disclosure and Employee Turnover

C Liang, B Lourie, H Qu, FY Wang - Available at SSRN 4702852, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
The widening CEO-employee pay gap in US corporations and its mandated disclosure have
generated significant debate. This paper investigates the implications of this disclosure on …

The information content of options trading for the CEO employee pay ratio

PF Hsieh, ZY Lin - Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2024 - Springer
This research examines how option trading activity reduces information asymmetry through
the CEO's and ordinary employee's awareness of firm value and their pay related to firm …

An unintentional consequence of taxation: Tax cuts and vertical pay dispersion

X Song, C Wu, Y Zheng - Journal of Business Finance & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We study the effect of tax cuts on the pay dispersion between firms' executives and rank‐and‐
file employees. Using the 2009 value‐added tax (VAT) reform in China as a quasi …

[PDF][PDF] CEO pay ratio versus financial performance in Polish public companies.

K Byrka-Kita, K Bulasiński - Economics & Business Review, 2024 - sciendo.com
In this paper, we aim to investigate the relationship between CEO pay ratio and corporate
financial performance in Polish public companies. Using a sample of 259 companies listed …

Do Consumers Care about Pay Inequality? Evidence from Household Purchase Data

K Bozos, J Chen, Y Gao, X Tian… - Evidence from Household …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We examine consumer reactions to the first-time disclosure of CEO-worker pay ratios by US
public firms in 2018, using micro-level household purchase data. We find that firms …

Financial Amplification, Leased Capital, and Risk Management

L You, K Song, Y Xuan - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Procyclically insufficient hedging with state-contingent claims can generate financial
amplification even in the absence of capital price fluctuations, where this type of …