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leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … managers. The division managers' job is to create profitable investment projects. Giving the managers incentives to do so …' incentives. The resulting tradeoff between a better use of resources and diminished incentives for effort determines whether …
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leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with nonintegration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … division managers. The division managers' job is to create profitable investment projects. Giving the managers incentives to do …' incentives. The resulting tradeoff between a better use of resources and diminished incentives for effort determines whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761852
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the middle income trap as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
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We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is …
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about how the coordination of hours among heterogenous coworkers affects pay, productivity and labor supply. In this paper … between wages, productivity and the degree of hours coordination – measured as the dispersion of hours – within firms. We then … coordination is associated with attenuated labor supply elasticity and spillovers on coworkers not directly affected by the tax …
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and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … the findings of existing research, increasing the power of group-based financial incentives does not reduce the positive …
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than the marginal benefit for the community. This result stresses one source of coordination failure within the EMU. …
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We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...
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Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
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