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Group vs. Individual Performance Pay When Workers Are Envious
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
providing incentives through group versus individual bonus schemes. When workers have a propensity for envy, either scheme may …
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Optimal incentive contracts for a worker who envies his boss : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004
Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2004
A worker's utility may increase in his own income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income … various assumptions about the object and generality of envy. Envy amplifies the effect of incentives on effort and, therefore …, increases optimal incentive pay. Moreover, envy can make profitsharing optimal, even when the worker's effort is fully …
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Optimal incentive contracts for a worker who envies his boss
Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2004
A worker's utility may increase in his own income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income … various assumptions about the object and generality of envy. Envy amplifies the effect of incentives on effort and, therefore …, increases optimal incentive pay. Moreover, envy can make profitsharing optimal, even when the worker's effort is fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261264
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The causes and economic consequences of envy
Cabrales, Antonio - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 4, pp. 371-386
flexibility. I suggest that labor and human resource economics can benefit from including envy into the standard set of factors … considered in their theoretical and empirical models. -- envy ; interdependent preferences ; skill segregation ; wage dynamics …
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Earnings inequality and the informal economy : evidence from Serbia
Krstić, Gorana; Sanfey, Peter - 2010
We analyse the extent and evolution of informality and inequality in the Serbian labour market between 2002 and 2007, using data from the Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS). Two surprising results emerge. First, the level of informal employment has risen significantly over the period,...
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Price and quantity adjustments in the Austrian labour market
Hofer, Helmut; Pichelmann, Karl; Schuh, Ulrich - 1998
Austria is among the very few countries in the European Union which have managed to maintain comparatively low unemployment rates and high employment rates. In international comparison Austrian unemployment is very stable over the business cycle. This is mainly due to the high sensitivity of the...
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The Gender Pay Gap
Legrain, Marie - 2022
In the United States, while men made one dollar back in 1970, women only made 59 cents (US DoL, 2017). In 2015, they earned 79 cents for every dollar a man earns. Although significant progress has been made to narrow this raw wage gap in forty-five years, it persists. At this current rate, it is...
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Glass ceiling in research : evidence from a national program in Uruguay : prepared for the Institutions for Development Department
Bukstein, Daniel; Gandelman, Néstor - 2017
This paper presents evidence that female researchers have 7.1 percentage points lower probability of being accepted into the largest national research support program in Uruguay than male researchers. They also have lower research productivity than their male counterparts. Differences in...
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Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion for Faculty in the Humanities, 1977-95
Ginther, Donna K.; Hayes, Kathy J. - 2001
This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate gender differences in salaries and promotion for academics in the humanities. Differences in employment outcomes by gender are evaluated using three methods: the Oaxaca decomposition is used to examine salary differentials,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014125647
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Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion for Faculty in the Humanities, 1977-95
Ginther, Donna K.; Hayes, Kathy J. - 2014
This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate gender differences in salaries and promotion for academics in the humanities. Differences in employment outcomes by gender are evaluated using three methods: the Oaxaca decomposition is used to examine salary differentials,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048913