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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting: productivity, preferences and gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2006

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...

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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2014

We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be...

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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - 2014

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Risk-sorting and preference for team piece rates

Bäker, Agnes; Mertins, Vanessa - 2012

Incentive schemes not only influence the effort provision of workers, but might also induce sorting. As drivers of self-selection, the literature mainly focuses on measures of productivity; however, other variables, such as preferences, beliefs and personality, also play a role. With this paper,...

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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - CESifo - 2014

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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...

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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment varying Contractual Commitment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014

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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance

Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - 2013

This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance …. We show that Chinese unions have a strong State-Party voice face and a collective voice face but lack of monopoly face …. The government influence plays an important role in unionization. The empirical findings on the effectiveness of unions …

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Unions, Collective Bargaining and Firm Performance

Laroche, Patrice - 2020

The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized … scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as well as the controversies surrounding the conclusions of … existing empirical research. Although it is difficult to draw firm and general conclusions on the effects of unions on firm …

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