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Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our … analyze the occurrence of benefits and their effects on employees' satisfaction. Our results provide evidence for economic as … reasons to provide benefits. Furthermore, analyzing the impact of tangible and monetary incentives on satisfaction and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646296
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2012
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991149
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non- profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904903
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Do Social Incentives Matter? Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2013) January
Money matters, but is that all? This column presents evidence that social incentives can boost productivity in sectors that rely on pro-social behaviour such as health, education, and social care. It argues that this may help explain the growing popularity of Corporate Social Responsibility...
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Executive compensation structure and credit spreads
Colonnello, Stefano; Curatola, Giuliano; Hoang, Ngoc Giang - Research Center SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for … - 2014
We develop a model of managerial compensation structure and asset risk choice. The model provides predictions about how inside debt features affect the relation between credit spreads and compensation components. First, inside debt reduces credit spreads only if it is unsecured. Second, inside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955159
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959558
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul; Schnedler, Wendelin - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bu- reaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200595
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Non-wage benefits, costs of turnover, and labor attachment: evidence from Russian firms
Juurikkala, Tuuli; Lazareva, Olga - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2006
Just as in established market economies, many Russian firms provide non-wage benefits such as housing, medical care or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086566
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Salary or Benefits?
Oyer, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Employer-provided benefits are a large and growing share of compensation costs. In this paper, I consider three factors … that can affect the value created by employer-sponsored benefits. First, firms have a comparative advantage (for example … on size and other differences in cost structure. Second, employees differ in their valuations of benefits and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087439
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022182