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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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Biological gender differences, absenteeism and the earning gap
Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - 2006
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …
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Help Your Employees, Help Your Firm : Evidence from U.S. Paid Sick Leave Mandates
Chunyu, Liangrong; Zhu, Xingchen - 2022
This paper exploits the staggered implementation of state-level paid sick leave (PSL) mandates to assess their real effects on U.S. corporations. We find that employees’ better access to sick pay leads to higher firm productivity and profitability. First, we show that the positive effects on...
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Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company
Pfeifer, Christian; Sohr, Tatjana - 2021
GWG gets larger with tenure for blue-collar but smaller for white-collar workers; (7) individual absenteeism has no … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … discrimination. A simple model within the context of absenteeism and statistical discrimination is offered …
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Biological gender differences, absenteeism and the earning gap
Ichino, Andrea (contributor); Moretti, Enrico (contributor) - 2006
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348536
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - 2021
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317533
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The use of performance appraisals and employees' presenteeism behavior
Grund, Christian; Nießen, Anna - 2024
Presenteeism behavior, i.e. working despite illness, is a common phenomenon wordwide and can have severe consequences for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relation between the use of company performance appraisals and employees' presenteeism behavior. We use...
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The Law and Ethics of Restrictions on an Employee’s Post-Employment Mobility
Bishara, Norman; Westermann-Behaylo, Michelle - 2013
Employee mobility as a conduit for knowledge transfer to a business competitor is a growing source of concern for many employers in the modern business environment where the skills, relationships, and knowledge embedded in a firm’s employees has become an important source of competitive...
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Incentive effects of bonus payments : evidence from an international company
Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004
This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual ''surprise'' bonus payment. The other is a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418219
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Incentive effects of bonus payments : evidence from an international company
Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004
"This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002262317