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designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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The standard economic view of the personal income tax is that it is a distortionary way of raising revenue which nonetheless has value because it tends to increase equality. However, when wages deviate from marginal product, the laissez-faire equilibrium is inefficient, and there can be an...
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the results of an experiment designed to determine whether principal's fairness helps in reducing free-riding amongst team …-agent relationship when joint production in a team is considered? Focusing on moral hazard in teams (Holmström, 1982), this paper reports …). Experimental evidence shows that i) offers of fair contracts favor team cooperation in the stranger treatment, whereas ii) repeated …
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In this article, we explore the potential tensions between the incentive systems of group of inventors and knowledge diversity in a high tech firm.
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This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labour productivity … countries and the US show that the evolution of labour productivity components counteracts the deterioration in countries' cost …
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This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce …. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills … dataset for manufacturing, services and trade sectors. Labour productivity is found to be the lowest for the low-skilled older …
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We use a firm production function approach to generate estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) and labor … productivity in the manufacturing sector for a group of Latin American countries. We exploit these estimates to study the relative … position of countries within this sector and to explore the main correlates of firm productivity. We find that while the exact …
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This paper focuses on the identification and short term forecast of the correlation between the Labor Productivity …
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Ce papier analyse les déterminants de la santé des enfants au Bangladesh en utilisant l'enquête "the demographic and …
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Dans ce papier, nous nous sommes posés la question de savoir pourquoi au Bangladesh, les enfants commencent leur … particulièrement sur l'impact net des déficiences nutritionnelles. A partir de l'enquête ménage MHSS (1996), conduite au Bangladesh …
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