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Making growth more inclusive in Costa Rica
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2016
In the past 30 years Costa Rica has grown steadily and social indicators have improved markedly. Well-being indicators are comparable or even above the OECD average in several dimensions, such as health, environment or life-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has...
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A Simple Economic Theory of Skill Accumulation and Schooling Decisions
Blankenau, William F. - 2014
We propose a model of schooling that can account for the observed heterogeneity in workers' productivity and educational attainment. Identical unskilled agents can get a degree at a cost, but becoming skilled entails an additional unobservable effort cost. Individual labor can then be used as an...
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Inequity Aversion in Tournaments
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - 2003
We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance …
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Hybrid Cardinal Tournaments
Tsoulouhas, Theofanis - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 2279-2288
This paper proposes an alternative to standard cardinal tournaments. The analysis contrasts "hybrid" cardinal … tournaments to standard cardinal tournaments and piece rates. It shows that providing for partial insurance against common … weights), or than providing for no insurance at all via piece rates. Hybrid tournaments increase the principal's profit …
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Inequity Aversion in Tournament
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003
We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100711
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Adapting Strategic Risk in Corporate Tournaments
Bono, James - 2008
strategic variability in corporate promotion tournaments. The model describes a situation in which agents are promoted to a …
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Inequity Aversion in Tournaments
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696268
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Dynamic Principal-Multiple Agent Contracts
Yeltekin, Sevin - EconWPA - 1998
I explore the nature of optimal static and dynamic contracts in an environment with moral hazard, where individuals contracting with the same principal receive correlated productivity shocks. The environment resembles the one considered in relative compensation theory ( i.e tournament theory),...
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Effects of individual incentive reforms in the public sector : the case of teachers
Martins, Pedro S.; Ferreira, João R. - 2024
We evaluate a political reform in Portugal that introduced individual teacher performancerelated pay and tournaments in …
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Health effects of job insecurity
Green, Francis - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Research has shown that job insecurity affects both mental and physical health, though the effects are lower when employees are easily re-employable. The detrimental effects of job insecurity can also be partly mitigated by employers allowing greater employee participation in workplace...
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