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Using personnel data, we compare worker productivity under a relative incentive scheme -where pay is based on individual productivity relative to the average productivity of the group- to productivity under piece rates. We find that productivity is at least 50% higher under piece rates. Further...
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not confirmed this prediction. In this paper, we propose a model with adverse selection followed by moral hazard, where …
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not confirmed this prediction. In this paper, we propose a model with adverse selection followed by moral hazard, where …
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The consumption value of education is an important, but rather ignored factor behind the individual's educational choice. This paper suggests a method for measuring the consumption value of education in a compensating differentials framework when the ability bias is corrected for. As an example,...
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Venture capitalists enjoy incentive-laden compensation schemes where they are paid a fixed amount (management fees) plus a share of profit (success fees). This scheme is of course intended to provide venture capitalists with strong incentives under the heavy information asymmetry (Sahlman, 1982,...
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This paper is concerned with the dynamics of competition in American political campaigns, in particular with how the type of message a candidate sends is affected by the stage of the campaign, the status of the candidate, and the competitiveness of the race. The paper examines the allocation of...
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External recruitment has often been viewed as a necessary evil in that it trades off the need for outside talents with the incentives of inside workers. This paper, however, shows that even from an incentive viewpoint, external recruitment has its positive role to play. Specifically, if...
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survival probability of a child in rural India. Careful attention is paid to the consequences of parental selection and … heterogeneity on survival technology. The results suggest that child mortality is negatively related to the likelihood of purchasing … high risk of child mortality engage in compensatory behavior and ignoring this first type selection underestimates the …
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This paper analyzes the implications of heterogeneity in price setting for both price and inflation inertia. Standard … only ex-post heterogeneity. While it is known that these models have different implications in terms of the dynamic effects … of monetary shocks, the role of heterogeneity has not yet been properly explored. In a simple framework, this paper …
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This paper presents a simple Cass-Koopmans-Ramsey AK growth model with heterogeneity that explains how policies that … place in poor and rich countries alike, arising from productivity heterogeneity and redistribution (although it could also … arise from other sources of heterogeneity). The effect is explicitly captured in the aggregate growth equation by the …
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