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Job Matching, Competition and Managerial Incentives

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  • Kaniska Dam

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When a manager's principal task is to organize production more efficiently, the intensity of the product market competition is crucial in determining the nature of firm-manager matching as well as the structure of managerial incentive. The firm-manager market is modeled as a two-sided matching game. If greater competition leads to increasing (decreasing) returns to cost-reduction, then a firm that faces more intense competition employs a manager with higher (lower) wealth, offers higher (lower) bonus and compensation, and has lower (higher) managerial slack. We further analyze the effects of entry on equilibrium matching and executive compensation.

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  • Kaniska Dam, 2009. "Job Matching, Competition and Managerial Incentives," Working papers DTE 460, CIDE, División de Economía.
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    Keywords

    Job Matching; Competition; Managerial Incentives;
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    JEL classification:

    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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