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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2000
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 235
Verlag: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
Contract theory predicts that workers are remunerated based on all available unbiased individual performance measures. In the real world, measures are often biased: tasks are too complex to include all measures, unforeseen contingencies occur for which contracts specify nothing, and the necessity of cooperation and coordination at tasks would be undermined by purely individual measures. Hence, alternative incentive mechanisms are employed (implicit contracts, efficiency wages, wage profiles, tournaments). This suggests that bonus pay is linked to task characteristics: complex tasks will be negatively related to bonus pay, unforeseen contingencies and the necessity to cooperate or coordinate will be positively correlated to premiums on aggregated levels such as team or firm bonus. The present article explores these relations using a French cross-sectional micro-data set. While complexity is found not to be negatively related to bonus pay, the other two effects are supported by the data.
Schlagwörter: 
Incentive schemes
bonus pay
three-variate probit
JEL: 
J33
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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