Manthei, Kathrin; Mohnen, Alwine - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 27 (2013) 4, pp. 331-353
on Pokorny (2008) we firstly analyze the impact of the fixed wage on work performance within a linear incentive contract … fixed wage but keeping the piece rate constant over treatments, we find a non-monotonic slope of effort in the fixed payment … with significantly higher effort levels for a very low fixed wage. Very high fixed payments also yield higher subject …