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Executive compensation : facts
Clementi, Gian Luca; Cooley, Thomas F. - 2010 - This version: October 6, 2009
strongly to innovations in shareholder wealth; measured as dollar changes in compensation, incentives have strengthened over …
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Awards are career catalysts for young talents in highly competitive job markets
Bünning, Florian; Chan, Ben; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; … - 2021 - This version: January 01, 2021
Despite the potential importance of awards as a possible career catalyst, the theoretical and empirical research on awards is still in its infancy. Here, we address this notable shortcoming in the economic literature by exploring data from German youth football. Analyzing whether an early career...
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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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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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A model of tournament incentives with corruption
Wang, Bin; Zheng, Yu - 2018
We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable … for high-powered incentives to elicit effort from the the officials. However, this is at odds with the generally low …
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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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Pay as you throw : evidence on the incentive to recycle
Rizzo, Leonzio; Secomandi, Riccardo - 2020
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The distribution of talent across contests
Azmat, Ghazala; Möller, Marc - 2016
Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most-able contestants? To what extent do contestants avoid competition? In this paper, we show, theoretically and empirically, that the distribution of abilities plays a crucial role in determining contest choice. Complete sorting exists only...
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Training and search on the job
Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016
The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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