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model where stronger incentives distort a worker's decisions towards low risk-return tasks …
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Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
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incentives in enhancing employee's job satisfaction. …
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We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm's aggregate …
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We estimate the effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism using two cross sections of British establishments. Private sector establishments that explicitly link pay with individual performance are found to have significantly lower absence rates. This effect is stronger for...
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scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality …
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; incentives ; Britain …
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scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality … pay is much more cost effective than a general pay rise. -- incentives ; public sector ; teams ; performance ; personnel …
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men's and women's reactions to the incentives provided by pay and promotion. The large and robust gender differences … displayed in the raw data are therefore not due to incentives. We need to look elsewhere for an explanation. Similarly large and … incentives is factored out …
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Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the monthly labour earnings...
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