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You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: Bonuses, Perceived Income, and Effort

Schnedler, Wendelin - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2009

provides conditions such that no success bonus induces the agent to exert more effort and the optimal contract is independent … effect has to be weighed against the incentive effect of the bonus. The trade-off is determined by the marginal effect of …

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How to Avoid Compensating CEO for Luck: The Case of Microeconomic Fluctuations

Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas; Zhang, Jianhua - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

section we analyze the impact of macroeconomic, industry and firm-specific factors on the compensations (salary, bonus …

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The Displacement Effect of Reemployment Bonus Programs

Davidson, Carl; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1990

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Reemployment Incentives for Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries: Results from the Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Spiegelman, Robert G.; Kline, … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

unemployment insurance claimants a modest cash bonus for rapid reemployment would increase the speed of return to work and reduce … program costs. In 1988 a similar experiment, examining several different bonus offers, was conducted in Washington State …. Evidence from the Washington experiment indicates that bonus offers do change job seeking behavior, but that only relatively …

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The role of Criticism in the Dynamics of Performance Evaluation Systems

Eve, CHIAPELLO; Annick, BOURGUIGNON - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2003

Drawing on the concept of « trial », developed by French sociologists, this article analyzes the dynamics of employees’ performance evaluation systems, particularly those involving accounting performance measures. A case study is presented as an illustration of our proposal to consider these...

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Group vs. Individual Performance Pay When Workers Are Envious

Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

We compare the wage costs of providing incentives through group versus individual bonus schemes. When workers are … unequal pay and the incentives it generates Nous comparons les coûts salariaux des rémunérations incitatives par bonus de … groupe et par bonus individuels. Quand les travailleurs ont une propension à l'envie, l'un ou l'autre de ces modes de …

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Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment: Implications of the Reemployment Bonus Experiments

Davidson, Carl; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996

We translate the results of the three reemployment bonus experiments that were conducted during the 1980s into (a …. Our approach is to use an equilibrium search and matching model, calibrated using data from the bonus experiments and …

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Letter: Hedge Funds Race to the Bottom

D'Amato, Anthony - In: The Economists' Voice 5 (2008) 3, pp. 1-1

Anthony D'Amato argues that hedge fund wizards will engage in a race to the bottom, accepting ever higher chances of going bust to pursue short run returns both to maximize their percentage take in good years and to attract more investment.

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The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2007

eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2008

The Bill seeks to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.

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Agents with and without Principals

Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2000

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