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Attention-Driven Demand for Bonus Contracts
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus - 2019
In many markets supply contracts include a series of small, regular payments made by consumers and a single, large bonus that consumers receive at some point during the contractual period. But, if for instance its production costs exceed its value to consumers, such a bonus creates...
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Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract
Efing, Matthias - 2019
We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk sharing whereby bonus pay partially absorbs earnings shocks....
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Pay Transparency Under Subjective Performance Evaluation
Fahn, Matthias; Zanarone, Giorgio - 2021
This paper studies how pay transparency affects organizations that reward employees based on their efforts (i.e., using “subjective performance evaluation”). First, we show that transparency triggers social comparisons that require the organization to pay its employees an “envy premium”....
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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments : An Experiment in a Company
Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using a sample of managers and employees from a...
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Wage and Employment Cyclicalities at the Establishment Level
Merkl, Christian; Stueber, Heiko - 2021
cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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Reservation Wages and Labor Supply
Kesternich, Iris - 2020
Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation Over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020
unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …
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Minimum Wage, Trade and Unemployment in General Equilibrium
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...
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Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision and Labor Market Outcomes
Arni, Patrick - 2018
, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find … find a zero effect on re-employment wages …
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