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-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first direct test of the relative validity of human capital and agency explanations … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … of interest concerns employee ownership (many workers at our case are employee owners). Consistent with agency theory we …
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Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees … behavioral complexity and realism into models of agency within organizations. Specifically, we assess the insights gained by …
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on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …
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-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first direct test of the relative validity of human capital and agency explanations … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … of interest concerns employee ownership (many workers at our case are employee owners). Consistent with agency theory we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822365
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees … behavioral complexity and realism into models of agency within organizations. Specifically, we assess the insights gained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560408
aggregate, but see that smaller group sizes and larger incentives increase the likelihood of choosing the efficient strategy …
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We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in foul calls made by referees. Similarly, there is no racial bias or in-group bias in Type-I errors...
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This paper investigates the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in choosing a teaching career using data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia. We find that the opportunity costs of becoming a teacher vary by gender: women enjoy a small wage premium, whilst males...
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Anonymous and unannounced site inspections known as "Mystery Shopping" (MS) are common in multi-site service firms, but little is known about the strategic importance of this practice. We conceptualize MS as a monitoring tool firms use to implement the optimal allocation of site resources...
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enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee … varying incentive levels, monetary rewards succeed in directing worker effort to commercial tasks; high-powered incentives … attract less prosocial employees, but low-powered incentives do not alter workforce composition. Social enterprises combining …
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