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Agricultural intensification in Ghana: Evaluating the optimist’s case for a Green Revolution

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; McBride, Linden - In: Food Policy 48 (2014) C, pp. 153-167

intensification within and across African countries. In this study we look at the case of Ghana to identify whether fast population … relevance of Green Revolution technologies for agricultural production in Ghana. In particular, we analyze whether fertilizer … use in Ghana is associated with high population density and intensive cereal production and whether land …

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Interindustrielle Lohnunterschiede und Effizienzlohntheorie : Befunde, Hypothesen und wirtschaftspolitische Relevanz.

Fels, Joachim; Gundlach, Erich - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1990

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Efficiency Wages: Signals or Incentives An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Wage and Commitment

Mühlau, Peter; Lindenberg, Siegwart - In: Journal of Management and Governance 7 (2003) 4, pp. 385-400

Efficiency wage theories arguethat firms induce their employees to work in a moredisciplined way by paying high wages. Two basicmechanisms have been pointed out in economics about how these wage premia motivate employees.The incentives-driven `shirking model' impliesthat employees who have a...

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Reciprocity and matching frictions

Wesselbaum, Dennis - In: International Review of Economics 60 (2013) 3, pp. 247-268

The ability of search and matching models to replicate stylized facts—such as volatilities and correlations—has been a center of attraction over the last couple of years. This paper introduces the Akerlof (Q J Econ 97:543–569, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1982</CitationRef>) fair wage approach into an endogenous separation search...</citationref>

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Social Relations and Relational Incentives

Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The contract may contain two types of...

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Committee Design with Endogenous Participation

Hahn, Volker - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2013

We investigate the optimal design of a committee in a model with the endogenous participation of experts who have private information about their own abilities. We study three different dimensions of committee design: members' wages, the number of seats, and the communication system. We show...

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The Price-Price Phillips Curve in Small Open Economies and Monetary Unions: Theory and Empirics

Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper extends the efficiency wages/partially adaptive expectations Phillips curve, otherwise known as the price-price Phillips curve, from a closed economy context to an open economy one with both commodity trade and capital mobility. We also consider the case of a monetary union (a...

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Insights from behavioral economics on how labor markets work

Altman, Morris - School of Economics and Finance, Victoria Business School - 2014

I discuss some key issues raised by behavioral economics for better understanding the working of the labor market. Amongst the key points in this paper are: (i) a revised modeling of the labor supply curve, with a specific focus on the target income approach (ii) elaborating on the importance of...

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Informal incentive labour contracts and product market competition

Meccheri, Nicola; Fanti, Luciano - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2012

This paper studies the dynamic interaction between product market competition and incentives against shirking. It is shown that efficiency wages can both increase and decrease when competition becomes fiercer. Instead, discretionary bonuses do not vary with competition but there exists an upper...

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Why Do Lazy People Make More Money?: The Strange Case of the Public Sector Wage Premium

Panizza, Ugo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

Empirical work suggests the presence of a public sector wage premium, the reasons for which are investigated in this paper. The results demonstrate a higher premium paid to women and premium decreases concurrent with skills. Job security undermines the incentive to work hard and forces the...

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