(individual or group performance) and its design (commissions, piece-rate or sharing schemes). Individual incentives demonstrate … the largest effect, while group or team incentives are smaller in magnitude. The case for government intervention through … tax breaks and other financial incentives is highly debated due to differences across firms and the potential for economic …

status considerations on wages, contracts, sorting, and output we use a standard principal agent framework in which firms …. Second, although workers may have the same productivity, equilibrium will generate a dispersion in (expected) wages, and … workers with status concerns will have more high-powered incentives, work more and earn more than workers who do not care …

We study optimal incentives in a principal-agent problem in which the agent's outside option is determined endogenously … obtaining this raise gives the agent an incentive to exert effort, which reduces the need for standard incentives, like bonuses … eliminates the need for standard incentives …

. This implies that firm-specific training can decrease current wages as it implies a credible commitment to lower future …

Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … translate into higher wages. Thus, we pose the following questions applied to a middle-income trapped country: is there a link … between labour productivity and wages in the Argentine manufacturing sector? Does it differ across techno-productive classes …

Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … translate into higher wages. Thus, we pose the following questions applied to a middle-income trapped country: is there a link … between labour productivity and wages in the Argentine manufacturing sector? Does it differ across techno-productive classes …