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Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
Dean, Andrés - 2020
to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career …. In this paper, we document the responses of self-employed and employed workers to these incentives, using social security …
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001341
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A Kink that Makes You Sick : The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence
Bockerman, Petri - 2014
This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the replacement rate is determined by past earnings allows identification of the effect using a regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053233
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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2012
financial incentives in attracting a larger and more qualified pool of applicants, (ii) the elasticity of the labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104672
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Early Retirement and Financial Incentives : Differences between High and Low Wage Earners
Euwals, Rob - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners … wage earners are, as predicted by the model, more sensitive to financial incentives. This implies that low wage earners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046644
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Ownership and Pay in Britain
Pendleton, Andrew - 2015
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016270
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Complex Tax Incentives : An Experimental Investigation
Abeler, Johannes - 2013
simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The payoff-maximizing effort level and the incentives around this … to ignore larger changes in incentives. Our results suggest that the effect of a newly introduced tax will be attenuated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082139
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Authority and Incentives in Organizations
Kräkel, Matthias - 2013
divisions to replace high incentive pay to the division heads by incentives based on private benefits of control. In that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084675
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How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives
Marchegiani, Lucia - 2012
resource management and personnel economics and may also contribute to the debate about incentives and organizational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112772
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The Response to Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Contracts with a Deductible : Evidence from a Differences-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design
Klein, Tobias J. - 2020
We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a … large Dutch health insurer we find that individuals are forward-looking. Changing dynamic incentives by increasing the … annual level. The response to dynamic incentives is an important part of the overall effect of cost-sharing schemes on …
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