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Team Incentives:Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either throughrankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of theproductivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments only increase … the productivity ofteams at the top. We interpret these results through a theoretical framework that makesprecise when the …

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The Peter Principle: An Experiment

Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promotedemployees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression tothe mean of the transitory component of ability...

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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance

Gibbs, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance inpractice....

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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence

Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...

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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm : First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...

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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...

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Mentoring and Segregation:Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using alarge longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor femaleemployees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do...

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Feedback in Tournaments under Commitment Problems:Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close agap in the literature by assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy atthe beginning of the tournament...

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Individual and Job-Based Determinants ofPerformance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derivehypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on arepresentative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and alsoexplore the impact of PA on performance pay...

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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility

Gielen, Anne C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. Thispaper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific traininginvestments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by increasing the returns to training...

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