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Employee incentives: Bonuses or penalties?

Nosenzo, Daniele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Firms regularly use incentives to motivate their employees to be more productive. However, often little attention is paid to the language used in employment contracts to describe these incentives. It may be more effective to present incentives as entitlements that can be lost by failing to reach...

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Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Higher labor costs (higher wage rates and employee benefits) make workers better off, but they can reduce companies' profits, the number of jobs, and the hours each person works. Overtime pay, hiring subsidies, the minimum wage, and payroll taxes are just a few of the policies that affect labor...

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Fairness and motivation

Falk, Armin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

How do firms motivate their employees to be productive? The conventional wisdom is that workers respond to monetary incentives—"Pay them more and they will work harder." However, a large and growing body of empirical evidence from laboratory and field experiments, surveys, and observational...

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Do responsible employers attract responsible employees?

Nyborg, Karine - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Survey and register data indicate that many employees prefer a socially responsible employer and will accept a lower wage to achieve this. Laboratory experiments support the hypothesis that socially responsible groups are more productive than others, partly because they attract cooperative...

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Teenage childbearing and labor market implications for women

Levine, Phillip B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing...

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Union wage effects

Bryson, Alex - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …

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Obesity and labor market outcomes

Averett, Susan L. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some …

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Unemployment benefits and job match quality

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …

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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers?

Peri, Giovanni - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

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Effect of international activity on firm performance

Wagner, Joachim - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging …

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