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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany
Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023
Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …
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The heterogeneous effects of bonus pay on performance outcomes : evidence from personnel data ; conference paper
Sauermann, Jan - 2014
This study uses rich information on performance outcomes to estimate the effect of bonus pay on worker productivity. We use a policy discontinuity in the call centre of a multi-national telephone company in which management introduced monetary bonuses upon achieving pre-defined performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489250
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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany
Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023
Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342988
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Tournaments within football teams : players' performance and wages
Ribeiro, António Sérgio; Lima, Francisco; Kraus, Sascha; … - In: Economic research 35 (2022) 1,5, pp. 4884-4901
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Earnings, productivity, and performance-related pay
Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - In: Journal of labor economics 17 (1999) 3, pp. 447-463
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Performance-related pay and labor productivity : do pay incentives and financial participation schemes have an effect on a firm's performance?
Lucifora, Claudio - 2015
Many firms offer employees a remuneration package that links pay to performance as a means of motivation. It also improves efficiency and reduces turnover and absenteeism. The effects on productivity depend on the type of scheme employed (individual or group performance) and its design...
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Deregulating teacher labor markets
Burgess, Simon M.; Greaves, Ellen; Murphy, Richard - 2019
A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...
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Relative pay, effort, and labor supply : comparisons to others’ pay and to one’s own past earnings can affect willingness to work and effort on the job
Bracha, Anat - 2017
Recent studies show that even irrelevant relative pay information—earnings compared to the past or to others—significantly affects workers’ willingness to work (labor supply) and effort. This effect stems mainly from those whose pay compares unfavorably; accordingly, earning less compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665014
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Deregulating teacher labor markets
Burgess, Simon M.; Greaves, Ellen; Murphy, Richard - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111979
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Achievement effects of individual performance incentives in a teacher merit pay tournament
Brehm, Margaret; Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 44 (2017), pp. 133-150
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