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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - CESifo - 2014

We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be...

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Hidden Benefits of Reward: A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives

Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - CESifo - 2013

We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay...

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Entrepreneurship in a Unionised Economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - CESifo - 2000

This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...

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Union Membership and Employment Dynamics: A Note

Dittrich, Marcus; Schirwitz, Beate - CESifo - 2010

overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big … enough to determine employment for the whole sector, it rather depends on both the elasticity of labor demand and union’s … time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions’ distortions. …

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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - CESifo - 2014

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in …

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Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - CESifo - 2009

We analyze the following question associated with flexible outsourcing under imperfect domestic labour market: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? We show that in general profit sharing has a negative effect on low skilled wage and thus an outsourcing...

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Incentives to Motivate

Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - CESifo - 2014

We present a model in which a motivator can take costly actions - or what we call motivational effort - in order to reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We distinguish two cases. First, the firm owner chooses the...

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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - CESifo - 2014

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers’ performance is about 11% higher for...

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Social Relations and Relational Incentives

Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The contract may contain two types of...

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Managerial Payoff and Gift Exchange in the Field

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen G. - CESifo - 2012

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker’s effort on the manager’s payoff. The results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage gift and the agent’s ability to “repay the gift”. We collect...

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