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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments : Evidence from an International Company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2003

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees. Using...

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Incentive effects of bonus payments: Evidence from an international company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

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The rise in absenteeism : disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time

Biørn, Erik; Gaure, Simen; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular … that the rise in absenteeism resulted from the inclusion of new cohorts - with weaker work-norms - into the workforce. We … also reject the idea that the rise in absenteeism resulted from more successful integration of workers with poor health …

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Identifying age-cohort-time effects, their curvature and interactions from polynomials : examples related to sickness absence

Biørn, Erik - 2013

In the paper is considered identification of coefficients in equations explaining a continuous variable, say the number of sickness absence days of an individual per year, by cohort, time and age, subject to their definitional identity. Extensions of a linear equation to polynomials, including...

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Age-cohort-time effects in sickness absence : exploring a large data set by polynomial regression

Biørn, Erik - 2013

Identification of equations explaining a continuous variable, e.g., the length of sickness absence spells, by age, cohort and time (ACT), subject to their definitional identity is reconsidered. Various extensions of a linear equation to polynomials are explored. If no interactions between the...

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Identifying trend and age effects in sickness absence from individual data : some econometric problems

Biørn, Erik - 2010 - Publisert 18. des. 2010 14:55 - Sist endret 18. des. 2010 15:10

When using data from individuals who are in the labour force to disentangle the empirical relevance of cohort, age and time effects for sickness absence, the inference may be biased, affected by sorting-out mechanisms. One reason is unobserved heterogeneity potentially affecting both health...

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The Rise in Absenteeism : Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Biorn, Erik - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular … that the rise in absenteeism resulted from the inclusion of new cohorts ﾖ with weaker work-norms ﾖ into the workforce. We … also reject the idea that the rise in absenteeism resulted from more successful integration of workers with poor health; on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139712

Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments : Evidence from an International Company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual surprise bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319144

Assessing the Effect of a Compulsory Sickness Insurance on Worker Absenteeism

Johansson, Per; Palme, Marten - 1999

The effect of economic incentives on worker absenteeism is analyzed using panel data on work absence behavior for each …

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