Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51870 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5619
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Whilst existing efficiency wage literature assumes detection probabilities of shirkers are exogenous, this paper finds them positively and endogenously dependent on non-shirkers' effort. It shares the result with the endogenous monitoring models where, in some regions, workers reduce effort in response to higher wages, but differs in that firms never operate in those regions. The paper further provides theoretical reasons for the empirical regularity that increased usage of performance related pay (PRP) flattens the pay-tenure profile. Wages and effort increase over the lifecycle, both with and without PRP, but with late payments in PRP falling short of pure wage arrangements.
Subjects: 
monitoring
tenure
efficiency wages
JEL: 
J33
J41
J54
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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