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corporate donations to charity may affect the employee's incentives and lead to improved performance. We conclude that there is …
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We propose a novel measure for workers' financial incentives based on withinestablishment wage differences among … linked workerestablishment-firm dataset that covers 31 million workers in Germany. For validation, we exploit survey … similar workers from the same occupation. This measure captures all forms of incentive pay that lead to workeremployer …
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I develop an agency model in which performance measurement and compensation contracts are jointly used to shape … incentives. When an agent has extensive control over firm value, there tend to be many optimal measures — each implying a unique … incentives can be embedded in the measure or the contract, any distortions in one are offset by adjusting the other, which can …
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the value and incentives of explicit RPE awards and find that RPE awards that use a custom peer group are structured both …
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This paper studies differential employee responses to the public disclosure of individual performance information throughout an organization. We argue that, to the extent that employees care about their colleagues’ perceptions of their productivity, public disclosure will increase motivation....
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This paper investigates the effects of board of director collusion on managerial incentives and firm values. Recent …-cutting effort and investigate the consequences of and the incentives for coordinating managerial pay among corporate boards. …
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This paper seeks to explore how an agent's incentives to perform influences her performance. We analyze this question … show that the relationship between the incentives to perform and the expected performance could be negative. The paper thus … offers a novel, non-behavioral explanation for the failure of incentives …
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I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and performance. I next create...
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workers show higher sensitivity to pay inequality. These firms underperform firms with less sensitive workers. These …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
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