This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees. Using...

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual ''surprise'' bonus payment. The other is a more...

The authors investigate the effect of managerial performance evaluation styles on employee work effort. Using panel data on 4,080 employees in a Swiss unit of an international company for the period 1999-2002, they test two hypotheses using paid and unpaid overtime work as effort indicators. The...

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual surprise bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees. Using...

Die rasante Zunahme der unternehmerischen Investitionstätigkeit im ersten Halbjahr 2011 hat auch die Leasingbranche mitgerissen, wie der neueste ifo Investitionstest bei den deutschen Leasinggesellschaften zeigt, der zusammen mit dem Bundesverband Deutscher Leasing-Unternehmen durchgeführt...

Der auf den Geschäftslageerwartungen der Leasinggesellschaften basierende ifo Investitionsindikator, der gemeinsam vom ifo Institut und dem Bundesverband Deutscher Leasing-Unternehmen ermittelt wird, prognostiziert für das laufende Jahr einen nominalen Anstieg der Ausrüstungsinvestitionen von...

Die deutsche Leasingwirtschaft fasste im Sommer 2010 Vertrauen in den Aufschwung. Die Geschäftslageurteile bewegen sich – zwei Jahre nach dem dramatischen Absturz – per saldo wieder leicht im positiven Bereich. Im August 2010 bewertete etwa jeder vierte Testteilnehmer seinen Geschäftsgang...