productivity, but they also underscore the risks of quantity-based incentives where quality is important. …

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor … productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to … disentangle the relationship between pay and productivity. …

work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in … difficult times when the typical firm size shrinks. We find further that domestic and global competition for managers has …

Performance pay has been shown to have important implications for worker and firm productivity. Although workers …

variation in measured health status are included in wage functions to assess empirically whether the productivity of both …

The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision … different behavioral channels. In particular, managers make use of the information provided by placing higher-margin products …