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Does group-based incentive pay lead to higher productivity? : evidence from a complex and interdependent industrial production process
Frederiksen, Anders; Hansen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt; … - 2022
Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using difference-in-difference estimation. Performance...
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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments : Evidence from an International Company
Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021
individual performances over time provide effective incentives for employee effort …
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Employee-Inventors Compensation in Germany — Burden or Incentive?
Wündisch, Sebastian - 2017
In Germany, around 80 to 90 percent of all inventions are created by employees. This leads to a conflict between the German principles of employment law and patent law. According to employment-law principles, the results of work are the property of the employer; the salary compensates the...
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Tournament incentives and institutional ownership
Cheong, Chee Seng; Yu, Chia-Feng; Zurbruegg, Ralf; … - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 74 (2021), pp. 418-433
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Do productivity incentives really equate to the increased work performance of employees
Dizon, Ricardo L.; Monsura, Melcah Pascua - In: International journal of business and globalisation : IJBG 28 (2021) 1/2, pp. 64-76
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Performance Incentives within Firms : The Effect of Managerial Responsibility
Aggarwal, Rajesh K.; Samwick, Andrew A. - 2000
Empirical research on the principal-agent model has focused almost exclusively on the incentives provided to chief … executive officers. However, the model is also directly relevant to the incentives provided to other top executives. Furthermore …, the extent to which other executives will be provided with high-powered incentives to maximize firm profits depends …
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Performance pay and prior learning : evidence from a retail chain
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timothy J. - 2018
We run two field experiments within a large retail chain showing that the effectiveness of performance pay crucially hinges on prior job experience. Introducing sales-based performance pay for district- and later for store-managers, we find negligible average treatment effects. Based on surveys...
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Labour supply, work effort and contract choice : theory and evidence on physicians
Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2010
We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...
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Contractual and organizational structure with reciprocal agents
Englmaier, Florian (contributor);  … - 2008
Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal … motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that … sources of incentives to best induce effort from the agent. Analyzing extended versions of the model allows us to examine how …
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Determinanten der Managementvergütung in Deutschland: Theorie und Empirie
Geil, Linus - In: Flexibilisierungstendenzen in der betrieblichen …, (pp. 9-37). 2000
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