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corporate donations to charity may affect the employee's incentives and lead to improved performance. We conclude that there is …
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We propose a novel measure for workers' financial incentives based on withinestablishment wage differences among … linked workerestablishment-firm dataset that covers 31 million workers in Germany. For validation, we exploit survey … similar workers from the same occupation. This measure captures all forms of incentive pay that lead to workeremployer …
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This paper studies differential employee responses to the public disclosure of individual performance information throughout an organization. We argue that, to the extent that employees care about their colleagues’ perceptions of their productivity, public disclosure will increase motivation....
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This paper investigates the effects of board of director collusion on managerial incentives and firm values. Recent …-cutting effort and investigate the consequences of and the incentives for coordinating managerial pay among corporate boards. …
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This paper seeks to explore how an agent's incentives to perform influences her performance. We analyze this question … show that the relationship between the incentives to perform and the expected performance could be negative. The paper thus … offers a novel, non-behavioral explanation for the failure of incentives …
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I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and performance. I next create...
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workers show higher sensitivity to pay inequality. These firms underperform firms with less sensitive workers. These …
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(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 …
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effect on the quality of new inventions. Further analysis reveals that the positive association between managerial incentives … between managerial incentives and patent quality only holds among firms with high ownership concentration and SOEs. The … entirety of these results suggests that managerial incentives are a net-negative for the innovative output of firms with high …
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evidence. We briefly discuss promising directions for future research. -- executive compensation ; managerial incentives …
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