Incentive Design and Mis-Allocated Effort
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JEL classification:
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2014-02-02 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2014-02-02 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-MIC-2014-02-02 (Microeconomics)
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