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Job rotation, where a principal routinely rotates agents among tasks, is argued to be a powerful antidote for agency problems inside an organization. However, when soft information dominates transactions inside a firm, verifying the information set that led to a particular decision becomes...
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This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...
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Recruitment is often delegated to senior employees. Delegated recruitment, however, is vulnerable to moral hazard … relates to the candidates type . Delegation is then superior to direct (owner) recruitment and offering tenure or guaranteed … seniority to the senior employee is neither always desirable for the owner nor necessary to ensure good recruitment. If there is …
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This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their recent job searches, distinguishing when candidates were asked about salary history from when they...
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learning model with the theory of rational inattention introduced by Sims (2006). In the model firms optimally allocate …
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