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Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law

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  • Anders Frederiksen
  • Colleen Flaherty Manchester

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We study how firms’ personnel practices react to labor market regulation. While a company is compelled to comply with a new law, what is the ripple effect of the change on existing personnel policies and practices? We provide evidence using passage of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and nearly two decades of administrative data from a large US firm. In line with theory, we find a weakening of long-term implicit incentives and movement toward pay for performance. Furthermore, the data are consistent with the firm carefully managing its personnel practices according to economic principles to preserve incentives for employees.

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  • Anders Frederiksen & Colleen Flaherty Manchester, 2021. "Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 39(4), pages 1011-1042.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlabec:doi:10.1086/712610
    DOI: 10.1086/712610
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    1. Frederiksen, Anders & Hansen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt & Flaherty Manchester, Colleen, 2022. "Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead To Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process," IZA Discussion Papers 14986, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Taiwo, Kayode, 2024. "Teachers’ Retirement Age Act: Tenure and Teacher Quality in Nigeria," MPRA Paper 121931, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Kawata, Yuji & Owan, Hideo, 2022. "Peer effects on job satisfaction from exposure to elderly workers," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).

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