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Swedish wives' market earnings contribute 39% of the net family earnings of couples living together. German wives contribute 12%. This paper employs Swedish and German micro data on earnings and personal characteristics of couples. After tax earnings are simulated, under both the tax system of...
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Productivity growth in the United States was considerably faster during 2000-03 than in the boom years of 1995-2000. This ebullient productivity performance raises numerous questions about its interpretation and its implications for the future, and these are stated here in the form of five...
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performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We … degree of control reduces the number of applications and that introducing performance incentives reduces this even further …
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We explore the consequence for taxation and regulation of bonus pay when investors are protected by taxpayers from downside risk. The paper develops a model where workers in financial sector firms make decisions about effort and risk-taking which are influenced by the structure of bonus pay....
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, the model offers an explanation for motivational crowding out: Control systems and pecuniary incentives may erode morale …
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We provide evidence on the match between firms, managers and incentives using a new survey designed for this purpose … implicit incentives they face and on the firms they work for. We model a market for managerial talent where both firms and …
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generate greater license income, controlling for university size, academic quality, research funding and other factors. We use … scientists respond both to cash royalties and to royalties used to support their research labs, suggesting both pecuniary and … intrinsic (research) motivations. The incentive effects appear to be larger in private universities than in public ones, and we …
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leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … division managers. The division managers' job is to create profitable investment projects. Giving the managers incentives to do …' incentives. The resulting tradeoff between a better use of resources and diminished incentives for effort determines whether …
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … representation of the French tax-benefit system. Our results suggest that financial incentives play a notable role in determining …
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workers’ productivity and firm performance. Besides giving more advancement incentives, bigger wage differentials might also …
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