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During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organizations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and effects of incentives. Economists may...
We show why variations in the rate of absenteeism might be expected as an equilibrium phenomenon. Managers may be content with a situation in which a large and stable proportion of their contracted workers do not attend work regularly. Further, we establish an equilibrium framework in which firms who require better attendance rates at work pay higher wages. In this way, we can attempt to explain...
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