Redundancy: Trends in Compensation

Trends in Dutch Executive Compensation

This article describes the trends in Dutch executive pay contracts. To increase our insight into this subject area, we conducted an empirical study on the basis of remuneration data provided by the executive board members of 71 Dutch listed companies over the period 2002-2004. The study starts from the premise that the characteristics of a unique corporate governance regime, together with the e...

Current trends in workers' compensation.

Recent trends in workers' compensation.

Workers' compensation provides cash benefits and medical care to employees who are injured on the job and survivor benefits to the dependents of workers whose deaths result from work-related incidents. Workers' compensation programs in the 50 states and the District of Columbia and federal programs together paid $56.0 billion in medical and cash benefits in 2004, an increase of 2.3 percent over...

Historical Trends in Executive Compensation 1936 - 2003

Soaring executive compensation during the past two decades has sparked an interest in CEO and other top management pay. We add a long-term perspective to this trend by constructing the first panel dataset to follow the compensation of top executives in large firms from 1936 to the present. The average real value of total compensation experienced three distinct phases: a sharp decline during Wor...

CEO Compensation: Trends, Market Changes, and Regulation

C ompensation figures for the top managers of large firms are on the news frequently. Newspapers report the salaries, the bonuses, and the profits from selling stock options of the highest paid executives, often under headlines suggesting excessive levels of pay or a very weak relation of pay to the performance of the firms.1 Especially after the fraud scandals at Enron and other important corp...