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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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Incentives and Wage Rigidity

Lazear, Edward P. - 1984

With the growth of the literature on incentive compensation has come the belief by some that incentive pay may be less rigid than pay that is not designed to effect incentives. Some have gone so far as to argue that this may explain differences in unemployment rates across countries. it is shown...

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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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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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Incentive Contracts

Lazear, Edward P. - 1986

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Do Managerial Objectives Drive Bad Acquisitions?

Morck, Randall - 1989

, when it buys a rapidly growing target , and when the performance of its managers has been poor before the acquisition …

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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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Trust in Large Organizations

Porta, Rafael La - 1996

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries,...

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Coase v. the Coasians

Johnson, Simon - 1999

The Coase theorem implies that, in a world of positive transaction costs, any of a number of strategies, including judicially enforced private contracts, judicially enforced laws, or even government regulation, may be the cheapest way to bring about efficient resource allocation. Unfortunately,...

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Educational Production

Lazear, Edward P. - 1999

their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … ranges away from equilibrium levels will adversely affect educational output. The theory argues for a particular non … by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested …

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