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Output-based Pay : Incentives or Sorting?
Lazear, Edward P. - 1999
of the typical American firm. Variable pay is usually touted as a way to provide incentives to managers whose interests … received much attention, but that is consistent with may of the facts, is selection. Managers and industry specialists may have … information about a firm's prospects that is unavailable to outside investors. In order to induce managers to be truthful about …
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Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts
Lazear, Edward P. - 1979
This paper analyzes compensation schemes which pay according to an individual's ordinal rank in an organization rather than his output level. When workers are risk neutral, it is shown that wages based upon rank induce the same efficient allocation of resources as an incentive reward scheme...
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Personnel Economics
Lazear, Edward P. - 2007
In this review of the personnel economics literature, we introduce key topics of personnel economics, focus on some relatively new findings that have emerged since prior reviews of some or all of the personnel economics literature, and suggest open questions in personnel economics where future...
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Incentives in Basic Research
Lazear, Edward P. - 1996
Individuals involved in basic research, like other workers, respond to incentives. Funding agencies provide implicit incentives when they specify the rules by which awards are made. The following analysis is an exercise in understanding incentives at an applied level. Specific rules are examined...
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The Peter Principle : Promotions and Declining Productivity
Lazear, Edward P. - 2001
Many have observed that individuals perform worse after having received a promotion. The most famous statement of the idea is the Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. There are a number of possible explanations. Two are explored. The most...
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Incentive Contracts
Lazear, Edward P. - 1986
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The Value of Bosses
Lazear, Edward P. - 2012
How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper...
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Overconfidence and Occupational Choice
Lazear, Edward P. - 2016
A statistical theory of overconfidence is proposed and applied to the issue of occupational choice. Individuals who can … occupatoin results in an ex post biased estimate of ability among those enter. The statistical theory of overconfidence provides …
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The Impatient Salesperson and the Delegation of Pricing Authority
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
Sales agents are impatient relative to owners. If a good fails to sell, the owner still retains possession of that good and can enjoy its services, whereas the agent receives nothing. As a consequence, sales agents prefer a lower price than does an owner. Owners are therefore reluctant to...
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Demographics and Entrepreneurship
Liang, James - 2014
Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers...
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