Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
SIFR Research Report Series,
Institute for Financial Research
No 47: Do Entrenched Manager Pay Their Workers More?
Henrik Cronqvist (), Fredrik Heyman, Mattias Nilsson, Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos
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Henrik Cronqvist: The Ohio State University
Fredrik Heyman: Research Institute of Industrial Economies
Mattias Nilsson: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Helena Svaleryd: Research Institute of Industrial Economies
Jonas Vlachos: SITE, Stockholm School of Economcs, and CEPR
Abstract: We present evidence on whether managerial entrenchment affects workers' pay, using a large panel dataset that matches public firms with detailed data on their subsidiaries and workers. We find that CEOs with a stronger grip on control pay their workers higher wages, but CEO ownership of cash flow rights mitigates such behavior. Unionized workers and executives are found to get a larger share of the higher pay. These findings do not seem to be driven by productivity differences or reverse causality, and are robust to a series of robustness checks. Our evidence is consistent with an agency model in which entrenched managers pay higher wages because they come with direct private benefits for the manager, such as lower-effort wage bargaining and better CEO-employee relations, and suggests more broadly an important link between the corporate governance of large public firms and labor market outcomes.
Keywords: Corporate governance; agency problems; private benefits; matched employer-employee data; wages
47 pages, September 15, 2006
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