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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter
Kato, Takao; Kauhanen, Antti - 2018
Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However, not all PRP programs are created equal and PRP programs...
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Human capital and career success: Evidence from linked employer-employee data
Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - 2011
Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278313
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The productivity effects of profit sharing, employee ownership, stock option and team incentive plans: Evidence from korean panel data
Kato, Takao; Lee, Ju Ho; Ryu, Jang-soo - 2010
We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Stock Option Plans (SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285424
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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace: Evidence from a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286862
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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403397
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Performance Spillovers and Social Network in the Workplace: Evidence from Rural and Urban Weavers in a Chinese Textile Firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
knowledge sharing hypothesis that low-ability workers learn from high-ability workers but not vice versa. Second, by exploiting … firms in Chinese cities, we find that performance spillovers/knowledge sharing take place only within the confines of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703094
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Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149158
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The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans: Evidence from Korean Panel Data
Kato, Takao; Lee, Ju Ho; Ryu, Jang-Soo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Stock Option Plans (SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466457
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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268378
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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2007
literature mentioned above, to the best of our knowledge, no papers made a distinction between discrete innovation and continuous …IZA DP No. 3132 Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure Arghya Ghosh Takao Kato Hodaka … Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure Arghya Ghosh University of New South Wales …
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