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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294492
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291414
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Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company
Pfeifer, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010675505
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Incentives, Wages, Employment, and the Division of Labor in Teams
Rauh, Michael T. - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2013
We develop a theory of incentives, wages, and employment in the context of team production. A central insight is that … specialization and division of labor not only improve productivity but also increase eort and the sensitivity of eort to incentives … under moral hazard. We show that incentives and employment are complements for the principal when the positive eects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096417
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290642
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Worker Payments and Incentives: A Classroom Experiment
Ghent, Linda S. - In: Journal for Economic Educators 10 (2010) 1, pp. 14-20
productivity. Students will discover that workers paid a piece rate per unit produced will have incentives to work harder, but will …
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Why Has Work Effort Become More Intense?
Green, Francis - School of Economics, University of Kent - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763235
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Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?
Bryan, Mark L.; Bryson, Alex - 2015
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419016
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Working in family firms
Breda, Thomas - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Family firms are ubiquitous in most countries. The differences in objectives, governance, and management styles between those firms and their non-family counterparts have several implications for the workforce, which scholars have only recently started to investigate. Family firms offer greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820358
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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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