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Reforms, entry and productivity : some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor);  … - 2006
factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with … growth in total factor productivity. -- entry ; productivity ; institutions ; regulations ; India ; reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310958
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Public and private sector jobs, unreported income and consumption gap in India : evidence from micro-data
Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - 2012
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … regression ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534147
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A distributional analysis of the public-private wage differential in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …. -- quantile regression ; public-private wage differential ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810687
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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323166
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Trust and control at the workplace : evidence from representative samples of employees in Europe
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2009
Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of performance appraisal systems, monitoring by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879332
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Information, uncertainty, and subjective entitlements in bargaining
Karagözoğlu, Emin; Riedl, Arno - 2010
More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779187
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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier : the context and design of the truckers and turnover project
Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594442
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Feedback and incentives : experimental evidence
Eriksson, Tor (contributor); Poulsen, Anders (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688788
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Performance pay, sorting, and outsourcing
Henneberger, Fred (contributor);  … - 2007
Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539338
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Individual and job based determinants of performance appraisal : evidence from Germany
Grund, Christian (contributor); Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2007
We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and also explore the impact of PA on performance pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539340