In this chapter we look at the working conditions and remuneration of migrants versus incumbent urban residents in China in the 2008 wave of the RUMiCI project. We find that the average hourly compensation for an urban worker is more than double that of migrants. Inequality of non-wage compensation is higher than that of hourly wages, mainly because urban workers are much more likely to benefit...

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...

Executive remuneration has been less analysed and there is need for scrutiny on executive compensation structures their implications corporate governance. The study aimed to ascertain the role of in accelerating agency governance problems FTSE/JSE Top-40 companies from 2008 - 2016. A Generalised Method Moments was employed, results revealed that can be accelerants as performance found negativel...

We used the results from Financial World’s widely publicized certification contest, CEO of the Year, to investigate the impact of such contests on firm performance and executive compensation. A certification contest ranks actors on performance criteria that key stakeholders accept as credible and legitimate. We found that certified CEOs received higher compensation than noncertified CEOs when p...

We propose a model in which firms compete to attract better managers by using corporate governance as part of an optimal executive compensation scheme. Higher governance decreases the cost of taking disciplinary actions against managers, but when managerial talent is scarce, competition among firms to attract better managers implies that firms under-invest in governance. The reason is that mana...

Increased uncertainty in the economic and business environments have placed IS function and IS leadership in a quandary today. In this paper, we empirically examine the remuneration of CIOs, and examine their association with firm performance, size and industry membership. Based on compensation data of 213 CIOs in 2002, we test several hypotheses linking the total, annual cash, and long term co...

The increasing disparity between executive compensation and firm performance, and outrageously high compensation levels has stimulated discussions on introduction of some form of pay regulation. The implications of such systems are however poorly understood. In this paper we investigate a specific case of introduction of executive remuneration Code in Slovenia, which provides some interesting i...

a tug which, according to towage contract, renders salvage services to tow, is not, principally, entitled to reward, although she has, practically, rescued the tow from danger. notwithstanding this, section 176 of iranian maritime act says: a tug has no right to remuneration for assistance to or salvage of the vessel she is towing or of the vessel cargo, except where she has rendered exceptiona...