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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions

Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

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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Incentive models of the labour market

Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2009

labour market in terms of the incentives that economic agents face. To fulfil its new role the following three reform …

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Chasing the carrot : actual working hours of fixed-term employees

Bossler, Mario; Grunau, Philipp - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 14, pp. 1148-1152

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Skill utilization at work : opportunity and motivation : challenging jobs and work incentives induce workers to use their skills but make life difficult for managers

Russo, Giovanni - 2017

complexity and the inherent difficulty in devising a correct set of incentives may result in misalignment between job demands and …

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Unemployment traps : do financial dis-incentives matter?

Pedersen, Peder J.; Smith, Nina - 2001

This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is … merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate precise measures of the economic incentives for … also the fixed costs of work. The results indicate large dis-incentives effects for some groups, especially low paid women …

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Employee absence in public and private organizations

Eskildsen, Jacob Kjær; Frederiksen, Anders; Løkke, … - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 21, pp. 2416-2432

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Why has work effort become more intense?

Green, Francis - 2002

Effort-biased technological change and other explanations for work intensification are investigated. It is hypothesised that technological and organizational changes are one important source of work intensification and supportive evidence is found using establishment data for Britain in the...

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