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Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...
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Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291414
Recent research has shown that the unexplained gender wage gap is smaller in establishments where a works council is present. The finding raises the question of whether establishment-level codetermination reduces gender wage discrimination or whether it reduces a wage differential that reflects...
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We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a...
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We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681303
incentives for university professors. However, even before the reform, publication records of university German professors showed … heterogeneity distinguishing junior academics and professors. We analyze the effects of selected reform elements on the incentives …
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We empirically investigate if tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intense. To test our hypotheses we use professional sports data from the TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga, the major handball league in Germany. Using either differences in betting odds or rankings to measure ability...
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Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We …
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with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate …, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real effort experiment conducted with … managers within a large pharmaceutical company not only show that changes in compensation incentives affect performance but …
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intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated … with lower degrees of absenteeism while this is not the case for individual incentives. …
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