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作者：Boning, Brent; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn
作者单位：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; CNA (The Center for Naval Analyses); Stanford University
摘要：Using unique panel data on production lines in U. S. minimills, we analyze the adoption of problem-solving teams and group incentive pay and their effects on productivity. Almost every line ultimately adopts group incentives. However, problem-solving teams are found almost exclusively in lines with more complex production processes. Consistent with these patterns, fixed-effects models reveal increased productivity under group incentives in all lines, while teams raise productivity in lines wit...
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作者：Gonzalez-Chapela, Jorge
作者单位：Universitat d'Alacant
摘要：We examine whether and how variations in the price of recreation goods influence men's allocation of market work. For the United States, individual-level data are combined with metropolitan-area-level price indices to estimate the male elasticity of intertemporal substitution of market work with respect to the price of recreation goods, which is found around 0.16 and statistically significant. The allocation of market work in response to changes in the price of recreation goods would create mo...
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作者：Schoenberg, Uta
作者单位：University of Rochester
摘要：Recent evidence suggests that employers acquire more precise information about a worker's productivity the more time he or she spends in the labor market. The following question arises: Is learning symmetric, that is, do all employers have the same information about workers' productivity, or is learning asymmetric, that is, does the current employer have superior information about workers' productivity? This article develops a learning model with endogenous mobility that nests both learning hy...
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作者：Lee, Darin; Rupp, Nicholas G.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; East Carolina University
摘要：Since the days of Henry Ford, employers have argued that higher pay induces employees to provide additional effort. While the converse is also thought to be true, there is little empirical evidence testing this hypothesis. Not only are significant company-wide pay cuts rarely observed in practice but measures of employee effort are typically difficult to quantify. This article examines the effort responses of U. S. commercial airline pilots following a recent series of large, permanent pay cut...
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作者：Baker, Matthew J.; Jacobsen, Joyce P.
作者单位：Wesleyan University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Hunter College (CUNY)
摘要：We consider why the gender division of labor is so often enforced by custom and why customary gender divisions of labor generally involve both direction and prohibition. In our formal model, agents first learn skills and then enter the marriage market. We show that wasteful behavior may emerge due to strategic incentives in specialization choice and human capital acquisition and that both problems may be mitigated through a customary gender division of labor. This division is not Pareto improv...
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作者：Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：We study worker behavior in an efficiency- wage environment in which coworkers' wages can influence a worker's effort. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers' responsiveness to coworkers' wages should lead profit-maximizing firms to compress wages. Our laboratory experiments, by contrast, show that while workers' effort choices are highly sensitive to their own wages, effort is not affected by coworkers' wages. This casts doubt on the notion that workers' concerns with equity might...
