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Tournaments for the endogenous allocating of prizes within workteams - Theory and experimental evidence
Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004
We present a model where compensation within a workteam is determinedendogenously by the use of a rank-order tournament …
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Incentives, Gaming, and the Nonlinear Pay Scheme: Evidence from Personnel Data in a Large Japanese Auto Sales Firm
Tsuru, Tsuyoshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2008
's largest auto sales chains. The company replaced a simple, linear compensation system in 2000 with nonlinear pay scheme kinked …
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Careers and wage growth within large firms
Lima, Francisco; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2001
The relationship between the worker's career path and wage growth is studied using a longitudinal sample of large firms. The econometric analysis shows that promoted workers receive a positive wage premium even if they stay in the same job level. Demotions are associated with negative wage...
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Careers and Wage Growth within Large Firms
Lima, Francisco; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2021
The relationship between the worker's career path and wage growth is studied using a longitudinal sample of large firms. The econometric analysis shows that promoted workers receive a positive wage premium even if they stay in the same job level. Demotions are associated with negative wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320862
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Work Environment and Moral Hazard
Marino, Anthony M. - 2015
We consider a firm's provision of safety and health measures or working conditions in a hidden action agency problem. The firm's second best optimum is compared to the first best. We consider the effects of changes in the shares of damages borne by the firm and by the agent. We examine the...
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How Much to Pay in Cash? Employee Retention via Stock Options
Gurtoviy, Ruslan; González, Luis G. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2008
We model deferred compensation as a share of an uncertain future profit granted by a financially constrained employer … to her employee in mutual agreement. Deferred compensation serves as a retention mechanism, helping the employer to avoid …, the employer will to defer compensation (pay in cash) to the employee. The employee always improves his position in the …
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Regulatory compensation limits and business performance : evidence from the National Football League
Petutschnig, Matthias - 2017
Executives' compensation has been on the forefront of the public and political debate since the recent financial crisis …. One of the measures publicly discussed is a general upper boundary to top management compensation packages (“salary cap … using maximum compensation regulations for decades. This paper exploits the 23-year experience with salary cap regulations …
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Gamification for sales incentives
Woźniak, Jacek - In: Contemporary economics 14 (2020) 2, pp. 144-161
Gamification as the use of game mechanisms for motivation in non-game contexts has been gaining popularity and is considered one of the hottest topics in management. However, there is little research on gamification in remuneration systems, especially with regard to the sales force. The article...
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Bonuses and performance evaluations
Sliwka, Dirk - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
Economists have for a long time argued that performance-based bonuses raise performance. Indeed, many firms use bonuses tied to individual performance to motivate their employees. However, there has been heated debate among human resources professionals recently, and some firms have moved away...
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A Theory and Experiment of How Competitive Bargaining Can Lead to Efficient Coordination
Baranski, Andrzej - 2017
participatory compensation mechanisms within them …
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