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tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers. …
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We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
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We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
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working conditions causes workers to quit at more similar times. When, and only when, communication is allowed, workers are …
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team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities …
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Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …
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Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
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-ability teammates who are urban residents. Such heterogeneous performance interdependence of workers within the same team suggests that … our evidence for performance spillovers is less likely to be a result of team specific demand shocks that generate … spurious performance interdependence of all team members. …
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We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
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