The Wage Incentive to Management: A Comparison across European Economies

Marco Biagetti, Leone Leonida and Sergio Scicchitano ()

No 687, Working Papers from Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance

Abstract: We define the wage incentive to management as the wage premium the manager earns because of his/her supervising role. We adopt an approach based on what if questions and estimate the premium at different quantiles of the distribution of wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we make use of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions inquiry released in 2009. The premium is found to be higher at the right tail of the distribution of wages, suggesting that the incentive to management differs across individuals at different quantiles of the distribution within each economy. Results also suggest that the premium differs across individuals located at the same quantiles of the distribution of different economies.

Keywords: Distribution of wages; Incentives to management; Semiparametric methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J31 J41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01-01
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