What Do Unions Do to Executive Compensation?
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Keywords
Unions; executive compensation; Implicit regulation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2006-08-19 (Business Economics)
- NEP-FIN-2006-08-19 (Finance)
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