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Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...
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staffed by motivated agents who subscribe to the mission. This Paper studies incentives in such contexts and emphasizes the … for high-powered incentives. The framework developed in this Paper is applied to non-profits, school competition, and … incentives in the public sector. …
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, and local development objectives of technology license offices. Royalty incentives work both by raising faculty effort and … sorting scientists across universities. The effect of incentives works primarily by increasing the quality (value) rather than …
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This Paper examines optimal incentives and performance measurement in a setting where an agent has specific knowledge … choice of performance measures and incentives depends on the agent’s knowledge, environmental risk, technological uncertainty …
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A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in …. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. …
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talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete more …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
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scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality …
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This paper explores the hypothesis that gender wage differentials arise from the interaction between the intra-household allocation of labour and the contractual relation between firms and workers in the presence of private information on workers’ labour market attachment. In our model, if...
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workers’ productivity and firm performance. Besides giving more advancement incentives, bigger wage differentials might also …
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-agent relationships by improving the trade-off between insurance and incentives in the design of explicit contracts. In dynamic settings …, however, there may be implicit as well as explicit incentives (e.g. managerial career concerns and the ratchet effect in … regulation). We show that the dynamic effects of CPI on implicit incentives can either reinforce or oppose the familiar (static …
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