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The wage incentive to management : a comparison across European economies
Biagetti, Marco; Leonida, Leone; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2012
We define the wage incentive to management as the wage premium the manager earns because of his/her supervising role. We adopt an approach based on what if questions and estimate the premium at different quantiles of the distribution of wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we...
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Countering moral hazard in higher education : the role of performance incentives in need-based grants
Montalbán, José - 2019
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Pay as you throw : evidence on the incentive to recycle
Rizzo, Leonzio; Secomandi, Riccardo - 2020
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In-kind incentives and health worker performance : experimental evidence from El Salvador
Bernal, Pedro; Martinez, Sebastian - 2018
been tested, with mixed results. This study experimentally evaluates the effects of team in-kind incentives on health …-kind incentives linked to performance over a 12-month period. All 75 teams received monitoring, performance feedback and recognition … exhibit improvements in performance measures over time, the in-kind incentives generated significant improvements in community …
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Can helping the sick hurt the able? : incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform
Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Van Reenen, John - 2015
unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …
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Extending the public sector in the ICES model with an explicit government institution
Delpiazzo, Elisa; Parrado, Ramiro; Standardi, Gabriele - 2017
This paper aims to present an extension of the ICES model to capture the public sector. Departing from a demand system mainly derived from the GTAP model, ICES-XPS model disentangles the private and the public actors. The paper reviews the changes in both the database and the model equations...
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Why won't workers do their jobs? : labor market rigidity and job performance in the public sector
Chong, Alberto; Cozzubo, Angelo - 2017
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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002
&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries' profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after …
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An analysis of incentive payment schemes
Portougal, Victor - 1993
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Does globalization create superstars?
Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2007
To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where a number of firms compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, i.e. the simultaneous integration of product markets and managerial pools, leads to...
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