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Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers, we use a direct measure of seniority-based pay as well as measures of … incentives. They are also less likely to invest in monitoring devices. We also find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822035
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The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic
Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
behavior depends critically on the way in which performance incentives are structured. In particular, relative compensation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822173
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Performance Pay and Risk Aversion
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822413
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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … representation of the French tax-benefit system. Our results suggest that financial incentives play a notable role in determining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822418
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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
subordinate then is affected by the outcome of the task and he therefore has strong incentives to contribute to its success. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822649
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Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets
Huck, Steffen; Seltzer, Andrew J.; Wallace, Brian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero, while third period productivity is zero and wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822891
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Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Riddell, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
-specific unobserved heterogeneity. Furthermore, we are able to estimate the effects of performance pay contracts in tasks of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822964
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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214026
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …'s behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Pay Enough, Don't Pay Too Much or Don't Pay at All? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
controlling for individual heterogeneity biases, it is shown that job utility rises only in response to 'generous' bonus payments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611510