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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is either a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We elicit … findings are as follows. First, output is much higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate, tournament, and revenue sharing …
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A Product Market Theory of Training and Turnover in Firms
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We develop a product market theory that identifies determinants of worker turnover and explains why firms invest in …
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The Effects of Globalization on Worker Training
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We consider a three-stage game to examine how market integration affects firms’ incentives to provide general worker training. In stage 1, firms invest in productivity-enhancing training. In stage 2, they can make wage offers for each others’ workers. Finally, Cournot competition takes...
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