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Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
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cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated …
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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 design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …
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managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …
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of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by … incentives and prizes. The conceptual factors highlighted by our analytical framework are then tested through a laboratory … experiment. The experimental exercise aims to analyze how prizes and incentives impact actual individuals' behavior differently …
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To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...
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that show, in a very general setting, that the choice between work effort and leisure under given linear incentives depends …
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and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at …
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Research consistently finds more workplace injuries occur on Mondays than on other weekdays. One hypothesis is that workers fraudulently claim that off-the-job weekend sprains and strains occurred at work on the Monday in order to receive workers' compensation. We test this using data from New...
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, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …
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