DOES MANAGERIAL COMPENSATION AFFECT WORKERS' EFFORT?

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2015-11-01

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Hesse, Nils
Rivas, Maria Fernanda

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We explore in a two-level gift-exchange experiment whether the managerial compensation influences workers' effort decisions. Firstly, we find that there exists a strong positive relation between own wage and effort levels for the workers, while the managers' effort reaches a maximum for intermediate wages and decreases for very high wages. Secondly, our data suggests that the managerial compensations are significantly negatively correlated with the workers' effort choices: the higher the manager's wage, the lower the effort level chosen by the workers.

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Managerial compensation, Social preferences, Laboratory experiment, Gift-exchange, Effort

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65102

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JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS

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https://doi.org/10.1016/s1514-0326(15)30013-1

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Economics and Administrative Sciences, Article

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N. Hesse and M. F. Rivas, “DOES MANAGERIAL COMPENSATION AFFECT WORKERS’ EFFORT?,” JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS, pp. 297–323, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65102.