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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. - 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...

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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments : Evidence from an International Company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2003

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees. Using...

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The rise in absenteeism : disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time

Biørn, Erik; Gaure, Simen; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular … that the rise in absenteeism resulted from the inclusion of new cohorts - with weaker work-norms - into the workforce. We … also reject the idea that the rise in absenteeism resulted from more successful integration of workers with poor health …

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Age-cohort-time effects in sickness absence : exploring a large data set by polynomial regression

Biørn, Erik - 2013

Identification of equations explaining a continuous variable, e.g., the length of sickness absence spells, by age, cohort and time (ACT), subject to their definitional identity is reconsidered. Various extensions of a linear equation to polynomials are explored. If no interactions between the...

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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments : Evidence from an International Company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

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Assessing the Effect of a Compulsory Sickness Insurance on Worker Absenteeism

Johansson, Per; Palme, Marten - 1999

The effect of economic incentives on worker absenteeism is analyzed using panel data on work absence behavior for each …

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Age-Biased Technological and Organizational Change: Firm-Level Evidence and Management Implications

Beckmann, Michael - 2007

This paper examines the question, whether the growing use of new technologies and decentralized forms of work organization affects the age structure of workforces within firms. The initial idea behind this relationship is that technological and organizational change may not only be skill-biased,...

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Working for a Good Cause

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2011

A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...

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