or responsiveness to financial incentives. In the frontier literature productive efficiency is assumed to be exogenously … with theoretical work on internal theory of the firm, which predicts that productivity compensation schemes will work well … production, as theory has hypothesized. The number of members in a group decreases both the quantity produced and the efficiency …

rigid than pay that is not designed to effect incentives. Some have gone so far as to argue that this may explain … differences in unemployment rates across countries. it is shown that there is no direct link between incentives and wage rigidity …. Many compensation schemes that provide incentives have the reverse effect: That is, they tend to make wages more rigid than …

Many provisions of the Social Security Program distort an individual's labor supply incentives. In particular, the …

individual employee earnings. The study examines the impact of incentives on the earnings of over 100,000 employees in 500 firms … variance is maintained with the addition of controls for heterogeneity of individual characteristics between the two sectors …

This paper examines the characteristics of and interactions among measures to effect saving and investment incentives … ("S-I incentives")in the context of an income tax system that is inadequately indexed for inflation. Examples are … incentives are classified into "consumption tax" and "direct grant" types, and it is shown that these differ in their influence …