Search Results - subject:"Leistungsorientierte Vergütung"

The effect of a bonus cap on compensation structure in the banking sector

Rutten, Albert; Witteman, Joost - 2026

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015611641

Why female professors earn less : the role of retention negotiations and performance bonuses

Cieply, Isea; Barros, Laura; Silbersdorff, Alexander; … - 2026

How large is the gender pay gap among university professors, and how do institutional pay-setting mechanisms shape this disparity? This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the gender pay gap among professors at a renowned German university. Using detailed human resources data for the time...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015615366

Executives' poverty experience and internal and external pay disparities : evidence from China

Huang, Jin; Li, Dongling; Guo, Fei - 2026

We show that executives' early-life poverty experiences reduce both internal (executive-employee) and external (executive-peer) corporate pay disparities. Three mechanisms drive this effect: increased risk aversion in poverty-exposed executives, strategic avoidance of negative media coverage to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015596408

Preference-driven contract design : how education alters risk, patience, and effort in incentive schemes

Weikl, Jan - 2026

Performance-contingent pay raises productivity, yet in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) only about 16% of workers report receiving performance pay, with the incidence being roughly seven percentage points higher among university graduates than among non-graduates. This coexistence of low...

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How absolute and relative payoffs shape dishonesty

Necker, Sarah; Le Maux, Benoît - 2026

We examine how absolute and relative gains within reward schemes influence dishonesty. In our online experiment, we vary two payoff dimensions in a cheating mind game: the payoff level and the absolute payoff difference between being successful or not. A higher payoff level has a negative impact...

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Can financial incentives shift health care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting?

Grašič, Katja; Siciliani, Luigi; Wen, Jinglin - 2026

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Performance pay in the hybrid work economy

Alipour, Jean-Victor - 2026

The large-scale rise of working from home (WFH) has granted workers unprecedented autonomy over how they allocate their time and effort, while weakening employers' monitoring ability. We ask whether firms use performance-based compensation to align workers' incentives when adopting WFH. To...

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News management, moral hazard, and the properties of earnings, prices, and compensation

Bonham, Jonathan - 2026

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The productivity effects of performance-related pay

Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2026

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Paying more or hassling less? : experimental evidence on administrative burdens, incentives, and grant take-up

Lades, Leonhard K.; McNamara, Glenn; Samahita, Margaret - 2026

Applying for benefits and programs can be so onerous that take-up is low even when support is crucial to people's lives. This study investigates how administrative burden and financial incentives influence the quality of the completion of an administrative task using an incentivized real-effort...

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