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Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?
Efficiency wage theory predicts that the wage per unit of effort will be lower in intensively monitored sectors. This wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee matched data from Ghana we provide evidence supporting this hypothesis.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 661
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Contracts
- Subject
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efficiency wages
monitoring
Effizienzlohn
Leistungskontrolle
Reallohn
Schätzung
Ghana
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Strobl, Eric
Walsh, Frank A.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2003
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Strobl, Eric
- Walsh, Frank A.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2003
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