For one company to have a competitive advantage and sustainability over others, its human
resource management is of the utmost importance to secure competent employees. As job …

Using an experiment to measure overconfidence and preferences for competitiveness and
risk, this article investigates whether these measures explain gender differences in college …

Orientation: There is much research on extrinsic motivation, job satisfaction and life
satisfaction in organisations. However, empirical evidence on how such factors affect …

To analyze the impact of labor market competition on the structure of compensation, we
embed multitasking and screening within a Hotelling framework. Competition for talent leads …

Civil servants have a reputation for being lazy. However, people's personal experiences with
civil servants frequently run counter to this stereotype. We develop a model of an economy …

In developing countries, people think, not from their brains but stomach. Because of
unemployment and destabilization of economy the only sure source of job satisfaction is pay …

We present a model in which workers with greater ability and greater risk tolerance move
into performance pay jobs to capture rents and contrast it with the classic agency model …

This paper proposes a labour market model with job search frictions where workers have
private information on match quality and effort. Firms use wage contracts to motivate …

Remuneration systems in the banking industry, in particular bonus payments, have
frequently been blamed for contributing to the buildup of risks leading to the recent financial …

We study optimal compensation contracts that (1) are designed to address a joint moral
hazard and adverse selection problem and that (2) are based on performance measures …