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Employees often learn about their ability while working, and the resulting beliefs interact with pay incentives to … job, dynamic selection, effort, and variation in pay incentives. The empirical analysis is based on unique data from a US … which pay incentives affect employment outcomes, profits, and compensation. Under the implemented and the profit …
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This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...
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This paper is an extensive review of agency theory applied to labour incentives. It introduces a generalised principal … insurance against incentives is enriched by bringing in the contribution of established extensions and new approaches to the … agency theory and, to a larger extent, labour incentives …
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On-the-job leisure is a pervasive feature of the modern workplace. We studied its impact on work performance in a laboratory experiment by either allowing or restricting Internet access. We used a 2×2 experimental design in which subjects completing real-effort work tasks could earn cash...
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Incentives are essential to promote labor productivity. We implemented a two-stage field experiment to measure effects … of career and wage incentives on productivity through self-selection and causal effect channels. First, workers were … hired with either career or wage incentives. After employment, a random half of workers with career incentives received wage …
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We analyze the effects of substitutability of social incentives on the labor supply of gigworkers (N=944) in a natural … the implications of these results for the understanding of social incentives and corporate social responsibility on labor …
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presence of a merit good. As a result, proper incentives together with a merit good are needed. Finally, the model raises …
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then more/less than they would deserve. This unfairness can only be mitigated by dampened incentives …
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allow the poor to become self-financed entrepreneurs reduces the incentives for young agents to work hard and save. A …
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allow the poor to become self-financed entrepreneurs reduces the incentives for young agents to work hard and save. A …
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