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In order to choose the proper size of an infrastructure and to save as much as possible on investment costs, it is necessary for the responsible party (the Centre in the language of this report) to have access to information that is typically known only by some agents or partners who may use...
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We consider the response to incentives as an explanation for productivity differences within a firm that paid its …: one due to differences in ability and the other due to differences in the response to incentives. We apply this … that individuals do react differently to incentives. However, while the women in our sample reacted slightly more to …
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Our objective in this paper is to illustrate and better understand the unavoidable arbitrage between incentives and … cerner l'arbitrage inéluctable entre incitations et flexibilité en situation d'information asymétrique. Nous caractérisons la …
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We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance …
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We analyze a two-task work environment with risk-neutral but inequality averse individuals. For the agent employed in task 2 effort is verifiable, while in task 1 it is not. Accordingly, agent 1 receives an incentive contract which, due to his wealth constraint, leads to a rent that the other...
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be 20%. Since planting conditions potentially affect incentives, structural econometric methods are used to generalize …
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The analysis of organizational change and particularly of its impacts on incentives is neither simple nor easy. We … les incitations n'est ni simple ni facile. Nous considérons dans cet article l'analyse de ces impacts dans quatre …
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We compare the wage costs of providing incentives through group versus individual bonus schemes. When workers are … unequal pay and the incentives it generates Nous comparons les coûts salariaux des rémunérations incitatives par bonus de … les incitations à l'effort qu'elles engendrent. …
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the proportion of aggregate production that fails to be appropriated, and the private incentives to choose productive …
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The role of field experiments in evaluating the effect of compensation policies on worker productivity is considered. Particular attention is paid to the ability of a field experiment to identify the effect of a permanent change in firm policy. While field experiments solve endogeneity problems...
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