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Low pay poses issues for managers internationally. We examine productivity in low-paying sectors in Britain, since the … National Minimum Wage's (NMW) introduction. We use a multiple channel analytical strategy, emphasising the wage-incentives … channel and linking it to a model of unobserved productivity. We estimate firm-specific productivity measures and aggregate …
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This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …
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This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180033
, incentives that motivate as well as information and communication technologies that enables or drives. …
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the outgrower-operated plots is the remuneration system and thus, the incentives to the workers. We compare the … productivity of the factory-operated plantation with the outgrower-operated plots based on a new cross-sectional plot-level data … between the explanatory variables. In order to obtain meaningful productivity measures, we impose monotonicity in input …
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the outgrower-operated plots is the remuneration system and thus, the incentives to the workers. We compare the … productivity of the factory-operated plantation with the outgrower-operated plots based on a new cross-sectional plot-level data … between the explanatory variables. In order to obtain meaningful productivity measures, we impose monotonicity in input …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011127921
comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …
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functions. He reverses earlier findings in that owners give managers incentives to act in an accommodating way. That is, optimal …
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the author finds that owners give managers incentives to act in an accommodating way. As a result, optimal delegation …
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enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee … varying incentive levels, monetary rewards succeed in directing worker effort to commercial tasks; high-powered incentives … attract less prosocial employees, but low-powered incentives do not alter workforce composition. Social enterprises combining …
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