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Paying Gig Workers - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Butschek, Sebastian - 2019
We study the performance effects of payment schemes for freelancers offering services on an online platform in an RCT. Under the initial scheme, the firm pays workers a pure sales commission. The intervention reduces the commission rate and adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857767
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Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment
Butschek, Sebastian - 2019
We study the performance effects of payment schemes for freelancers offering services on an online platform in an RCT. Under the initial scheme, the firm pays workers a pure sales commission. The intervention reduces the commission rate and adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861286
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The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction - Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2021
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320740
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The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction : empirical evidence and theoretical implications
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2001
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404103
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How do agents react to dynamic wage increases? : an experimental study
Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2016
We investigate how workers' performance is affected by the timing of wages in a real-effort experiment. In all … wages by small amounts raises performance by about 15% relative to a constant wage. The effort reactions can be organized by … a model in which agents reciprocally respond to wage impulses, comparing wages to an adaptive reference standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455817
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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence
Grund, Christian - 2005
influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility maximization directly implies increasing and concave shaped wage … profiles. Furthermore, employees get unhappier over time staying on a certain job although wages increase. Using data from 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784044
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How Do Agents React to Dynamic Wage Increases? An Experimental Study
Sliwka, Dirk - 2016
We investigate how workers' performance is affected by the timing of wages in a real-effort experiment. In all … wages by small amounts raises performance by about 15% relative to a constant wage. The effort reactions can be organized by … a model in which agents reciprocally respond to wage impulses, comparing wages to an adaptive reference standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995580
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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees : Theory and Evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011
employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129084
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Employee identification and wages: on the economics of "affective commitment"
Kampkötter, Patrick; Petters, Lea M.; Sliwka, Dirk - 2020
We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271435
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Employee Identification and Wages : On the Economics of "Affective Commitment"
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2020
We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824439