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Riesgo moral e información oculta antes de la conformación de equipos
Cendales, Andrés; Mora, Jhon James - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 29 (2020), pp. 337-350
In the context of the team's theory, this article shows that employees will be communicated, independent of their skill endowment, have a high skill endowment. In this way, the formation teams can lead to groups whose productivity is lower than that exhibited in terms of the skills they...
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A Simple Note on Informational Cascades
Fiore, Annamaria; Morone, Andrea - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-1, pp. 1-21
Seminal models of herd behaviour and informational cascades point out existence of negative information externalities, and propose to ?destroy? information in order to achieve social improvements. Although in the last years many features of herd behaviour and informational cascades have been...
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Incentives for prosocial activities
Lacetera, Nicola - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Early studies often found that offering economic incentives for undertaking prosocial and intrinsically motivated … related to whether crowding out (or substitution) is likely to occur. In many cases, incentives succeed in encouraging more … prosocial behavior and are also cost-effective. However, although the substitution of external incentives for intrinsic …
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Can lab experiments help design personnel policies?
Villeval, Marie Claire - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Can a company attract a different type of employee by changing its compensation scheme? Is it sufficient to pay more to increase employees’ motivation? Should a firm provide evaluation feedback to employees based on their absolute or their relative performance? Laboratory experiments can help...
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Mechanism design and communication networks
Tomala, Tristan; Renou, Ludovic - In: Theoretical Economics 7 (2012) 3, pp. 489-533
couple encryption techniques together with appropriate incentives to secure the transmission of each player's private …
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Would you test for 5000 Shillings? HIV risk and willingness to accept HIV testing in Tanzania
Ostermann, Jan; Brown, Derek S.; Mühlbacher, Axel; … - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 24, pp. 1-11
Objectives: Despite substantial public health efforts to increase HIV testing, testing rates have plateaued in many countries and rates of repeat testing for those with ongoing risk are low. To inform policies aimed at increasing uptake of HIV testing, we identified characteristics associated...
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The incentive impact of the fixed wage: A real effort experiment
Manthei, Kathrin; Mohnen, Alwine - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 27 (2013) 4, pp. 331-353
when agents are loss averse. Secondly, we test the resulting hypotheses in an economic real effort experiment. Varying the … werden die resultierenden Hypothesen in einem ökonomischen Experiment mit realen Anstrengungen getestet. Bei variierenden …
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Tax Effects on the Value of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs) and the Decision to Go Public
Rhee, Thomas A. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 1 (1991) 2, pp. 101-113
The incentive stock options (ISOs) are similar to the regular stock call options. However, when one considers various taxing laws regarding the ISO stocks, the ISOs have unique features differentiated from the regular stock call options. In general, no income from ISOs is realized, for tax...
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Tuning unemployment insurance to the business cycle
Andersen, Torben M. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
unemployment insurance in bad times without jeopardizing incentives to work or public finances in the medium term. A possible …
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Is unconditional basic income a viable alternative to other social welfare measures?
Colombino, Ugo - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Automation and globalization have brought about a tremendous increase in productivity, but also accelerated job destruction, systemic risks, and greater income inequality. Current social policies may not be adequate for achieving the goals of redistributing the gains from automation and...
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