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Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study
Cason, Timothy; Masters, William; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-all tournament with a single fixed prize, and a novel proportional-payment design in which that same prize is divided among contestants by their share of total achievement. We find that proportional prizes...
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Teacher Behavior under Performance Pay Incentives
Jones, Michael D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Over the last decade many districts have implemented performance pay incentives to reward teachers for improving student test scores. Economic theory suggests that these programs could alter teacher work effort, cooperation, and retention. Because teachers can choose to work in a performance pay...
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
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Some are Punished and Some are Rewarded: A Study of the Impact of Performance Pay on Job Satisfaction
McCausland, David; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Using an econometric procedure that corrects for both self-selection of individuals into their preferred compensation scheme and wage endogeneity, this study investigates whether significant differences exist in the job satisfaction of individuals receiving performance-related pay (PRP) compared...
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Skill Acquisition, Incentive Contracts and Jobs: Labor Market Adjustment to Trade
Sly, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines how global integration influences worker behavior regarding skill acquisition, as well as firm behavior regarding incentive contracts and occupational diversity. The approach integrates several key components of international trade and the wage distribution in developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642661
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Subsistenz: Geschichte, Bedeutung und Rekonstruktion des Subsistenzbegriffes
Thieme, Sebastian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyses the term “subsistence” to utilise it for scientific purposes. In doing so, the term will be reconstructed by an evolutionary view. Afterwards, the term will be discussed and develpoped with respect to the so-called paradox of the poverty line.
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An analysis of correlation between organizational justice and job satisfaction
Yaghoubi, Esmaeil; Ahmadzadeh Mashinchi, Sina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study was an attempt to explore the relationship between organizational justice, encompassed by three components …: (distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) job satisfaction, that is employees’ perceptions of workplace … justice. This study, indeed, investigated the relationship among these justice measures in the Iranian environment. The data …
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...
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“All’s well that ends well!” subjective wellbeing: an epistemic enquiry
Pillai N., Vijayamohanan; B. P., Asalatha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
philosophy in the 18th century and section 5 discusses wellbeing in the context of the theory of justice. The next section …
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Ética y Justicia. Reflexiones a partir de The Idea of Justice de Amartya Sen
Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper carries out a brief analysis of Amartya Sen’s thinking on Justice, based on Part IV of his book The Idea of … Justice. Besides of describing Sen’s thoughts on the subject, the paper aims to contextualize it in the evolution of Sen …’s work and in the general discussion on Justice in economic theory, reconsidering his identity as a non utilitarian …
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