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Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervision
Dittrich, Dennis; Kocher, Martin G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within … on the reciprocity of employees. …
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Social Exchange and Common Agency in Organizations
Dur, Robert; Roelfsema, Hein - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate to a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255514
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Gift Exchange and the Separation of Ownership and Control
Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper resulted in an article in 'Games and Economic Behavior' (2013). Volume 77, issue 1, pages 41-60.<P> Numerous gift exchange experiments have found a positive relationship between employers' wage offers and workers' effort levels. In (almost) all these experiments the employer...</p>
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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Roelfsema, Hein - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper has resulted in a publication in the <I>Journal of Economic Psychology</I>, 31(4), 676-686.<P> We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard...</p></i>
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Gift Exchange in a Multi-worker Firm
Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
in the size of the workforce and intention-based reciprocity rather than social preferences seems to be the main driving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256970
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Worker Reciprocity and Employer Investment in Training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
by reciprocity. A reciprocal worker may be willing to give the firm a full return on its investment. We present empirical … evidence that supports the proposed mechanism. Workers with a high sensitivity to reciprocity have 15% higher training rates … than workers with a low sensitivity to reciprocity.<P>See publication in <A href="http://www3.interscience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257026
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Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers
Non, Arjan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
Using a formal principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some agents care more for their principal when they are convinced that the principal cares for them. Principals can signal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257176
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Gift Exchange in the Workplace
Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257203
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Income Taxation in an Empirical Collective Household Labour Supply Model with Discrete Hours
Bloemen, Hans G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256197
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Labour Supply and Commuting: Implications for Optimal Road Taxes
Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
See also the publication in the 'Journal of Urban Economics' (2010), 68(1), 82-89.<P> A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential assumption to reach this...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256712