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Salary and the gender salary gap in the academic profession
Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 1999
The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination. This paper considers salary determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour...
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Your everyday, average academic
Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 1999
The data described in this paper come from a unique cross section study collected by the author, using a postal questionnaire, of five Scottish Universities: Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and St. Andrews undertaken in 1995/6. It encompasses detailed information on the personal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313948
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The renumeration of British academics
Euwals, Rob; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2000
This paper examines both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination within the UK academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 635 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. In the existing literature, the fact that in many occupations, employees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336865
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Team structure and the effectiveness of collective performance pay
Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma; Vergé, Thibaud - 2012
The adoption of performance related pay schemes has become increasingly popular in the public sector of several countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices. The resulting team structure included several offices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570154
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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments
Eriksson, Tor (contributor); Teyssier, Sabrina (contributor) - 2006
to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …. We show that when the subjects choose to enter a tournament, the average effort is higher and the between … is an important condition for a higher efficiency of relative performance pay.-- tournament ; performance pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283430
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Strive to be first or avoid being last : an experiment on relative performance incentives
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2015
We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different … tournament contract incorporating both incentives at the top and at the bottom induces the highest effort, especially in larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337036
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Psychological incentives, financial incentives, and risk attitudes in tournaments : an artefactual field experiment
Cadsby, Bram; Engle-Warnick, Jim; Fang, Tony; Song, Fei - 2015
stimulate effort. Through a real-effort artefactual field experiment with factory workers and university students as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407820
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Performance pay, group selection and group performance
Königstein, Manfred (contributor);  … - 2007
Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577782
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The complementary use of experiments and field data to evaluate management practices : the case of subjective performance evaluations
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2015
Most firms rely on subjective evaluations by supervisors to assess their employees' performance. This article discusses the implementation of such appraisal processes, exploring the use of multiple research methods such as the analysis of personnel records, survey data, and lab and field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308995
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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017
, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631427