Arbeitspapier
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning
This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show how, in the presence of imperfect information over the shape of the production function, worker's effort choice changes over time as information is disclosed and processed. We also show that changes in workers compensation can trigger such learning process. We test this hypothesis using personnel records from a Peruvian egg production plant. Exploiting a sudden change in the compensation schedule, we find that workers learn from each other over the shape of the production function. This adjustment process is costly for the firm.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13898
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Production Management
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
Personnel Economics: Labor Management
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Subject
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organizational learning
workplace incentives
inputs
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Amodio, Francesco
Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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2025-03-10T11:44:56+0100
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Amodio, Francesco
- Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2020
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