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Wages and Labour Productivity: the role of Performance-Related Pay in Italian firms
Damiani, Mirella; Pompei, Fabrizio; Ricci, Andrea - 2013
This paper analyses the role of Performance Related Pay (PRP) agreements on labour productivity and wages. Its main … contribution is thus to investigate the effects of PRP on both dimensions, i.e. productivity and distribution, whereas most of the … estimates, also controlling for a rich set of covariates. Furthermore, the comparison of productivity estimates with those for …
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Performance related pay, productivity and wages in Italy: a quantile regression approach
Damiani, Mirella; Pompei, Fabrizio; Ricci, Andrea - 2014
regression techniques. They find considerable heterogeneity across the distribution of labor productivity and wages, with the … and presented standard quantile estimates to investigate heterogeneity in pay-performance impacts on labor productivity … and wages. In a second stage, the endogeneity of PRP was taken into account by using instrumental variable quantile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015240858
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015225551
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Market-based incentives
Grochulski, Borys; Zhang, Yuzhe - 2013
We study optimal incentives in a principal-agent problem in which the agent's outside option is determined endogenously in a competitive labor market. In equilibrium, strong performance increases the agent's market value. When this value becomes sufficiently high, the threat of the agent's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015236444
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - 2006
Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220636
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Nýir kjarasamningar og launamunur kynjanna
Olafsdottir, Katrin - 2008
The paper measures the gender wage differentials among members of the Icelandic public sector union federation Association of Academics (BHM). The collective bargaining agremeents of the member unions have changed dramatically during the last 15 years while the agreements have also been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218871
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Labour Management in China: Legislation, Stratification, and Wages
Bayari, Celal - 2014
The Chinese labour market has undergone an extensive restructuring in the last four-and-a-half decades, following the start of the economic reforms, and the open door policy for foreign investment in 1978, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. The nature of employment contracts, labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221650
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Union, efficiency of labour and endogenous growth
Bhattacharyya, Chandril; Gupta, Manash Ranjan - 2015
This paper develops an endogenous growth model with human capital formation and ‘Efficiency Wage Hypothesis’ to investigate the growth effect of unionisation and to analyse properties of optimum income tax rate in the presence of an unionised labour market and with taxation only on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015247887
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Human Capital Spillovers in the Workplace: Labor Diversity and Productivity
Navon, Guy - 2009
The paper studies the relationship between human capital spillovers and productivity using a unique longitudinal … that hiring workers who are diversified in their specific knowledge is beneficial for plants’ productivity—the knowledge … Least Squares or Fixed-Effects method is biased upward due to simultaneity of the inputs and the unobserved productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218526
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Organizational Hierarchies in the Slovenian Manufacturing Sector
Bonilla, Santiago; Polanec, Sašo - 2020
ordered layers with less hours and higher wages in higher layers. Following Caliendo, Monte, and Rossi-Hansberg (2015b), who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219436