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Where Does Profit Sharing Work Best? A Meta-Analysis on the Role of Unions, Culture, and Values
Doucouliagos, Chris; Laroche, Patrice; Kruse, Douglas L.; … - 2018
In this article we re-examine the relationship between group-based profit sharing and productivity. Our meta-regression analysis of 313 estimates from 56 studies controls for publication selection and misspecification biases and investigates the impact of firm level unionisation and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931582
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Performance pay and earnings: evidence from personnel records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Riddell, Chris - 2006
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained and hours worked on a performance pay contract. Using these data, we estimate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269236
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Performance Pay and Productivity in Health Care: Evidence from Community Health Centers
Cadena, Brian C.; Smith, Austin C. - 2019
Nearly half of high earning workers receive performance pay as part of their compensation, but we know strikingly little about the incentive effects of piece rate compensation on high-skilled workers. In this paper, we examine changes in medical providers' output in response to a piece rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141222
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Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Riddell, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employeeemployer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained and hours worked on a performance pay contract. Using these data, we estimate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822964
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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting: productivity, preferences and gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2006
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267618
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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377306
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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703774
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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779438
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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - 2013
This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance …. We show that Chinese unions have a strong State-Party voice face and a collective voice face but lack of monopoly face …. The government influence plays an important role in unionization. The empirical findings on the effectiveness of unions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328977
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Worker Representation
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022
We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882584