This study investigates whether paying higher wages motivates employees to provide higher
effort and whether firm profit moderates this relation. Consistent with gift exchange (Akerlof …

This study was undertaken in southern Ethiopia to assess productivity and technical
efficiency of smallholder farmers and identify factors that determine productivity and …

Optimal agency contracts pay the lowest wage necessary to induce profit‐maximizing effort.
Employees could view such contracts as violating reciprocity because, relative to more …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between financial
reporting and cost stickiness in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange …

This study extends research on downsizing strategies and influences of an economic
downturn to examine the relationship between downsizing strategies and firm performance …

The public sector employs roughly a third of the world's paid workforce. Their wages not only
represent the income of a substantial portion of the population but also influence pay setting …

The pattern of effort and wages is derived in a multisector efficiency wage model. Firms
choose effort endogenously. Easily monitored or low-turnover jobs have high effort and may …

This paper examines incentive-wage effects for production and for managerial/technical
workers in both urban and rural Chinese nonagricultural enterprises. We report strong …

This paper shows how bottom-up activity analyses within a dynamic computable general
equilibrium framework can be undertaken for the longer-term analysis of energy and climate …

This study aims to identify the level of technical efficiency and the determinants of technical
inefficiency for transport manufacturing firms in Malaysia for 2010 using cross-sectional data …