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Measuring ratchet effects within a firm : evidence from a field experiment varying contractual commitment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2014

We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be...

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Performance pay and productivity in health care : evidence from community health centers

Cadena, Brian C.; Smith, Austin C. - 2019

Nearly half of high earning workers receive performance pay as part of their compensation, but we know strikingly little about the incentive effects of piece rate compensation on high-skilled workers. In this paper, we examine changes in medical providers' output in response to a piece rate...

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Where does profit sharing work best? : a meta-analysis on the role of unions, culture, and values

Doucouliagos, Chris; Laroche, Patrice; Kruse, Douglas L.; … - 2018

In this article we re-examine the relationship between group-based profit sharing and productivity. Our meta-regression analysis of 313 estimates from 56 studies controls for publication selection and misspecification biases and investigates the impact of firm level unionisation and national...

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Performance pay and enterprise productivity : the details matter

Kato, Takao; Kauhanen, Antti - 2018

Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However, not all PRP programs are created equal and PRP programs...

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Chinese unions and enterprises performance

Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - 2013

This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance …. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly … unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

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Worker representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers.

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Worker representatives

Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - 2024

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

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Collective bargaining for women : how unions can create female-friendly jobs

Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022

Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...

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Information provision, incentives, and attention: a field experiment on facilitating and influencing managers' decisions

Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021

The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial...

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Locus of control and performance appraisal

Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Chadi, Cornelia - 2016

This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their...

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