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 …

I develop an agency model in which performance measurement and compensation contracts are jointly used to shape … incentives. When an agent has extensive control over firm value, there tend to be many optimal measures — each implying a unique … incentives can be embedded in the measure or the contract, any distortions in one are offset by adjusting the other, which can …

What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a … within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …

firm size. This paper fills this hole by providing empirical evidence for a “measurement effect” in the “size effect”. In …

measurement unit determines what distortions we will face, and thus, using different measures we may end up identifying completely …