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Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students

Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate …, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real effort experiment conducted with … managers within a large pharmaceutical company not only show that changes in compensation incentives affect performance but …

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Shame and Guilt in Lancashire: Enforcing Piece Rate Contracts

Huberman, Michael - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

The ratchet effect undermines firms' ability to pay workers a steady piece rate. Using examples from the nineteenth-century British textile industry, this paper studies the different strategies firms and workers used to enforce piece rates. The strategies depended upon the emotional responses of...

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The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives

Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic selfselection where the current promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital, unobserved (to the econometrician) individual specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm...

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Nash Implementable Liability Rules for Judgement-Proof Injurers

González, Patrick - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

the most to monetary incentives under the strict liability rule, and the strict liability rule to everybody else. Je …

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Labour Supply, Work Effort and Contract Choice: Theory and Evidence on Physicians

Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Shearer, Bruce S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...

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Methods of Pay and Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis

Parent, Daniel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1997

In this paper, I investigate the relationship between methods of pay, including piece rates and bonuses, and the level and variance of wages using longitudinal data from the NLSY (1988-1990). Results using OLS and fixed-effects show that piece rate workers earn a premium compared to other...

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Rémunération à l'ancienneté et ajustement du marché du travail

Béjaoui, Ali; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2008

effective compromise between incentives and activation programs that would allow a balance between economic imperatives …

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When Piece Rates Work: More Lessons from the Cotton Mills

Huberman, Michael - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

parties had incentives to keep at bay the forces of competition. The lists gave workers a share in the gains of technical …

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Redesigning Teams and Incentives: A Real Effort Experiment with Managers of a Merged Company

Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

with managers originating from companies with different incentives and working habits. In this paper, we offer a new way to … influence of shifts occurring both in compensation incentives and in team composition. The results of a real effort experiment … conducted with managers within a large pharmaceutical company show that not only changes in compensation incentives affect …

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Voluntary Teaming and Effort

Keser, Claudia; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

payoff for cooperation to each player, but at the same time provides individual incentives to take a free ride on the other …

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