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The Effect of Wage Subsidies on Piece Rate Workers: Evidence from the Penny Per Pound Program in Florida
Ku, Hyejin - 2018
This paper studies a fair trade program in which consumers provide a wage subsidy (bonus) to piece-rate tomato pickers …. The total subsidy - determined by sales to participating buyers - is divided among workers based on their relative output … bonus is exogenous and invariant to workers' effort. Therefore, for a given sized subsidy, the combined total (or per worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533116
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Does minimum wage increase labor productivity? : evidence from piece rate workers
Ku, Hyejin - 2020
We examine worker effort as a potential margin of adjustment to a minimum wage hike using unique data on piece rate workers who perform a homogenous task and whose individual output is rigorously recorded. By employing a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits the increase in Florida's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239053
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The consequences of a piece rate on quantity and quality : evidence from a field experiment
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, William S.; Wei, Xiangdong - 2013
This field experiment examines output quantity and quality for workers in a data input business. We observe two sets of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196479
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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor);  … - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … ability ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280790
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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments
Eriksson, Tor (contributor); Teyssier, Sabrina (contributor) - 2006
to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether … ; incentives ; sorting ; selection ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283430
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How does the type of subsidization affect investments : experimental evidence
Ackermann, Hagen - 2015
I study how different types of subsidization affect investment decisions in a laboratory experiment. Even though the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504557
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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446934
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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405210
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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001654753
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Evaluating Environmental Programs : The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320728