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Non-linear Incentives and Worker Productivity and Earnings : Evidence from a Quasi-experiment

Freeman, Richard B. - 2019

Firms often use non-linear incentive systems to motivate workers to achieve specified goals, such as paying bonuses to reach targets in sales, production, or cost reduction. Using administrative data from a major Chinese insurance firm that raised its sales targets and rewards for insurance...

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Unionism and the Dispersion of Wages

Freeman, Richard B. - 1978

This study examines the effect of trade unionism on the dispersion of wages among male wage and salary workers in the … dominate the more widely studied impact of unionism on the dispersion of average wages across industries, so that on net …

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Beyond Burnout : from Measuring to Forecasting

Blackburn, Bart; Chan, Tiffany; Cherot, Elizabeth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Burnout of physicians and other medical personnel is a major problem in the economics of healthcare systems, potentially costing billions of dollars. Knowledge of the determinants and costs of burnout at the organization level is sparse, making it difficult to assess the net benefits of...

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Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance

Blasi, Joseph R. - 2008

levels of supervision, and c) fixed wages that are at or above market level. Most workers report that cash incentives, stock …

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Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance : UK Evidence

Conyon, Martin J. - 2001

theory, the evidence also shows that firms and workplaces with shared compensation practices have a higher incidence of …

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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009

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Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion

Freeman, Richard B. - 1999

The current expansion has shattered the length of the previous longest peace-time boom and brought unemployment rates below four percent in 44 percent of metropolitan areas. We estimate the expansion's impact on the labor market outcomes of less-educated men. We find that young men, especially...

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How do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to Economic Conditions

Freeman, Richard B. - 1985

This paper examines the changes over time in public sector wages and employment relative to private sector wages and …

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Low-Cost Student Labor : The Use and Effects of the Subminimum Wage Provisions for Full-time Students

Freeman, Richard B. - 1981

are a major determinant of which establishments with permits to pay students subminimum wages in fact make use of the … program and the extent of that use. Establishments in areas characterized by high wages and low levels of unemployment …

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Union Wage Practices and Wage Dispersion within Establishments

Freeman, Richard B. - 1981

. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through … individual determination. Dispersion of wages between organized plants is reduced compared to dispersion of wages between … dispersion of wages within firms and in the economy as a whole …

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