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Price-Cost Margins, Exports and Productivity Growth : With an Application to Canadian Industries
Bernstein, Jeffrey I. - 1991
machinery, electrical products and chemical products industries. The results show that there is significant oligopoly power in …
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Competition, Markups, and the Gains from International Trade
Edmond, Chris - 2012
We study the gains from trade in a model with endogenously variable markups. We show that the pro-competitive gains from trade are large if the economy is characterized by (i) extensive misallocation, i.e., large inefficiencies associated with markups, and (ii) a weak pattern of cross-country...
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Opportunity Counts : Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives
Boning, Brent - 2001
This paper investigates the individual and joint effects of group incentive pay and problem-solving teams on productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34...
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Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters
Rothstein, Jesse - 2012
Recent proposals would strengthen the dependence of teacher pay and retention on performance, in order to attract those who will be effective teachers and repel those who will not. I model the teacher labor market, incorporating dynamic self-selection, noisy performance measurement, and Bayesian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460241
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Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2014
An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an incentive effect and (2) worker selection. We use a simplified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, which provides random variation in piece rates conditional on revealed...
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Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes
Gertler, Paul - 2013
We nested a large-scale field experiment into the national rollout of the introduction of performance pay for medical care providers in Rwanda to study the effect of incentives for health care providers. In order to identify the effect of incentives separately from higher compensation, we held...
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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …
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Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Gauthier, Jean-Francois; Nyshadham, Anant - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study relational contracts among managers using unique data that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian … ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which … these facts imply gains from sharing workers. We show that managers respond to shocks by lending and borrowing workers in a …
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Technological Change and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation
Lustig, Hanno - 2009
characterize the optimal managerial compensation contract when firms accumulate organizational capital but risk-averse managers …
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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
"spinouts": managers of input divisions can start their own firms, making customized inputs formerly provided internally subject … lead to inefficiently low entry. Vertically integrated firms can fight back by hiring managers for their input divisions …
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