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Justice is in the eyes of the beholder: Eye tracking evidence on balancing normative concerns in torts cases

Engel, Christoph; Rahal, Rima Maria - 2020

Frequently deciding legal cases requires an assessment in multiple, conceptually incompatible dimensions. Often one normative concern would call for one decision, and another normative concern for a different decision. The decision-maker must engage in balancing, with no help from overarching...

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Bonuses and performance evaluations

Sliwka, Dirk - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)

Economists have for a long time argued that performance-based bonuses raise performance. Indeed, many firms use bonuses tied to individual performance to motivate their employees. However, there has been heated debate among human resources professionals recently, and some firms have moved away...

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The More the Gloomier: development of informal employment and its effect on wages in Turkey

Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021

Various studies found wage gaps between formal and informal sector workers even after controlling for a number of individual and firm level characteristics. It has also been shown that earnings differentials across these sectors are quite stable over the years. While there is limited amount of...

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Motivating employees for long term company success

Lewis, Kyle (contributor) - 2010

There have been many recent examples in the news of how employees were motivated by their companies to take actions that were not best for the long term success of the company. Mortgage companies gave financial incentives to brokers for each loan approved regardless of quality, which resulted in...

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The management of managers: A review and conceptual framework

Boxall, P; Gilbert, J - 2007

The management of managers is an important contemporary concern, but the literature on the issue is not well integrated. This paper reviews key sources on the topic across organizational economics, human resource development and strategic human resource management. It presents a novel...

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Die Wirkung flexibler Entgeltkomponenten auf den Arbeitsmarkt unter Berücksichtigung betriebswirtschaftlicher Aspekte

Schlegtendal, Götz - 2003

Subject of this study are the impacts of flexible compensation components (incentive wage, profit-sharing, employee … compensation in the view of enterprises and employees.Following these basis three different options to make compensation flexible … quality of work. In this sense they contribute to a compensation linked to productivity, with positive impact to companies and …

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Reform to the personal injurycompensation system: a panacea insight?

Price, Hugh - Chartered Insurance Institute - 2008

CII Introduction: Reform to the personal injury compensation system has been a hotly debated topic that has affected …

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Industrialization and Compensation for Displaced Farmers

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2010

This paper analyzes an environment where a plotof land is currently under agricultural use under tenancy, andboth the landlord and the tenant can invest to enhance agricultural productivity. There is the possibility of converting theland to non-agricultural use. We analyze the incentives of...

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Beyond Nandigram: Industrialisation in West Bengal

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Bardhan, Pranab K.; Basu, Kaushik; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

involvedin the land acquisition process and that we correctly deal withthree sets of issues: the size and form of compensation …, theeligibility for compensation and the credibility of the process.[...] …

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Risk-Taking Incentives, Governance, and Losses in theFinancial Crisis

Chesney, Marc; Stromberg, Jacob; Wagner, Alexander F. - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North … - 2010

This paper studies the extent to which risk-taking incentives of CEOs and other governancefeatures in a range of years prior to the recent financial crisis were related to the write-downsof U.S. financial institutions during the crisis. We document that institutions whose CEOs hadparticularly...

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