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Do employers pay for consistent performance? : Evidence from the NBA

Bodvarsson, Örn B. - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 36 (1998) 1, pp. 145-160

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Do Employers Pay for Consistent Performance? : Evidence from the NBA

Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Brastow, Raymond T. - 1998

In a world of uncertainty in which a worker's performance is variable over time and average performance is unknown when hiring, how will employers determine compensation? We develop a monitoring and signaling model where information is symmetric and parties are risk neutral. Monitoring costs...

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Productivity, wages, and marriage : the case of major league baseball

Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2011

Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871-2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterparts holding all else equal (the "marriage premium"). Baseball is a unique case study because it...

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Productivity, wages, and marriage : the case of major league baseball

Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2011

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Why are wages upward sloping with tenure?

Prinz, Joachim - 2004 - 1. Aufl.

One of the most stylized facts in labor economics is the finding that wages tend to rise with job duration but what is … performance and wages in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is used to test the superiority of one model over others in … wages are solely determined on the basis of their productivity. Findings are rather in accordance with shirking and matching …