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The firm as the locus of social comparisons: Internal labor markets versus up-or-out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012
We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion hierarchies: (i) internal labor markets, in which agents have a...
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Returns to inventors
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - 2010
A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of …
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Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work
Schneider, Florian; Brun, Fanny; Weber, Roberto A. - 2020
administrative labor-market data and causal evidence from a laboratory experiment. We also measure individuals' aversion to … work in the lab and have a relative preference for work perceived as immoral outside the laboratory. We note that sorting …
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Does relative performance information lower group morale?
Heursen, Lea - 2019 - This version: December 2019
reference group. In a novel experiment, I vary whether or not members of a reference group obtain relative performance …
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Returns to Inventors
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - 2010
A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333876
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Work incentives and salary distributions in major league baseball
Avrutin, Brandon M.; Sommers, Paul M. - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 35 (2007) 4, pp. 509-510
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A model of cash incentive system for IT salespersons
Chhabra, Harwant Singh - In: Human resource management : linking organizational processes, (pp. 215-221). 2007
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Work incentives and salary distributions in Major League Baseball
Avrutin, Brandon M.; Sommers, Paul M. - 2006
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Perverse incentives at the banks? : evidence from a natural experiment
Agarwal, Sumit; Wang, Faye H. - 2009 - Draft: August 20, 2009
Incentive provision is a central question in modern economic theory. During the run up to the financial crisis, many banks attempted to encourage loan underwriting by giving out incentive packages to loan officers. Using a unique data set on small business loan officer compensation from a major...
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The impact of performance measure discriminability on ratee incentives
Ahn, Tae Sik; Hwang, Iny; Kim, Myung-in - In: The accounting review : a publication of the American … 85 (2010) 2, pp. 389-417
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