... an average of 27 percent lower compensation than firm-paid executives. Given that there were no structural changes to compensation in 2012, there is no reason to believe that this pattern was different during our sample period. 2023 career concerns promotion contract choice Chinese SOEs...

...Qi Chen; Shane S. Dikolli; Wei Jiang ABSTRACT Prior work has established that managers' concerns about the level of their future compensation (i.e., implicit incentives from career concerns) may substitute for explicit incentives in compensation contracts offered to the managers in a single-task...

...Alexander Brüggen ABSTRACT In a laboratory experiment, I investigate the role of perceived own ability in a multi-task setting with career concerns under fixed wages and under financial incentives with a higher weight on the task measured with noise. I find that in the absence of career concerns...