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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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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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Fairness and motivation

Falk, Armin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) September, pp. 1-10

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

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Are happy workers more productive?

Proto, Eugenio - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Recently, large companies like Google have made substantial investments in the well-being of their workers. While evidence shows that better performing companies have happier employees, there has been much less research on whether happy employees contribute to better company performance. Finding...

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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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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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Trade liberalization and gender inequality

Pieters, Janneke - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is …

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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers?

Anderson, Kathryn H. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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Trade liberalization and gender inequality

Pieters, Janneke - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is …

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