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Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods : The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...

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Monitoring and Pay:An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervisiona

Dittrich, Dennis A. V.; Kocher, Martin G. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

We present an experimental test of a shirking model where monitoring intensityis endogenous and effort a continuous variable. Wage level, monitoring intensityand consequently the desired enforceable effort level are jointly determined bythe maximization problem of the firm. As a result,...

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Wages, Length of Relationship and Bargaining Power:An experimental study in a world of complete contracts

Dittrich, Dennis A. V. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

To explain potential sources of wage rigidity this article analyzes a model of reciprocalkindness applied to a repeated ultimatum game with changing and nonzeroconflict payoffs. The model is also tested in a laboratory experiment. The resultsare compatible with the rentsharingapproach to wage...

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German Apprenticeship Training, Earning Profiles and LabourTurnover: Theory and Evidence

Bougheas, Spiros; Yannis Georgellis - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2001

We develop a simple labour turnover model of general training. Upon completion of theirtraining, apprentices are equipped with general skills and they accumulate firm-specificskills by continuing working for their training firm. Job turnover is associated with a loss ofaccumulated firm-specific...

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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate... …

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Causal Misperceptions of the Part-Time Pay Gap

Schrenker, Annekatrin - 2023

This paper studies if workers infer from correlation about causal effects in the context of the part-time wage penalty. Differences in hourly pay between full-time and part-time workers are strongly driven by worker selection and systematic sorting. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to...

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Indenture as a Commitment Device in Self-Enforced Contracts: An Experimental Test

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2005

How can a principal (an agent) ensure that an agent (a principal) will work (pay up), if payment (work) precedes work (payment)? When a banknote is torn in two, each part is by itself worthless. A principal can pre-commit to payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent the...

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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness Across Ethnic Groups: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Levely, Ian; Bartos, Vojtech - 2018

We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...

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Communicating Subjective Evaluations

Lang, Matthias - 2018

Consider managers evaluating their employees\' performances. Should managers justify their subjective evaluations? Suppose a manager\'s evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal\'s scope for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show...

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Stock options and chief executive officer compensation

Armstrong, Christopher S.; Larcker, David F.; Su, Che-Lin - 2007

Although stock options are commonly observed in chief executive o±cer (CEO) compensation contracts, there is theoretical controversy about whether stock options are part of the optimal contract. Using a sample of Fortune 500 companies, we solve an agency model calibrated to the company-specific...

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