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Rewarding idleness

Rewarding idleness
Rewarding idleness
Market wages reflect expected productivity by using signals of past performance and past experience. These signals are generated at least partially on the job and create incentives for agents to choose high-profile and highly visible tasks. If agents have private information about the profitability of different tasks, firms may wish to prevent over- investment in visible tasks by increasing their opportunity costs. Firms can do so, for instance, by using employee perks. Heterogeneity in employee types induces substantial diversity in organizational and contractual choices, particularly regarding the extent to which conspicuous activities are tolerated or encouraged, the use of employee perks, and contingent wages
2012/14
Department of Economics, Central European University
Canidio, Andrea
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Gall, Thomas
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Canidio, Andrea
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Gall, Thomas
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Canidio, Andrea and Gall, Thomas (2012) Rewarding idleness (Central European University Department of Economics Working Papers, 2012/14) Budapest, HU. Department of Economics, Central European University 39pp.

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Abstract

Market wages reflect expected productivity by using signals of past performance and past experience. These signals are generated at least partially on the job and create incentives for agents to choose high-profile and highly visible tasks. If agents have private information about the profitability of different tasks, firms may wish to prevent over- investment in visible tasks by increasing their opportunity costs. Firms can do so, for instance, by using employee perks. Heterogeneity in employee types induces substantial diversity in organizational and contractual choices, particularly regarding the extent to which conspicuous activities are tolerated or encouraged, the use of employee perks, and contingent wages

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Published date: 2012
Organisations: Economics

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Local EPrints ID: 348656
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/348656
PURE UUID: 120517fa-a615-4c54-a119-53652f6ad67e
ORCID for Thomas Gall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2257-1405

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Date deposited: 21 Feb 2013 11:29
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 04:42

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Author: Andrea Canidio
Author: Thomas Gall ORCID iD

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