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The effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism
(2012)
The effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism is estimated using two cross-sections of private sector British establishments. Establishments that explicitly link pay with individual performance are found to ...
Tenure, wage profiles and monitoring
(2013)
Efficiency wage theory predicts that firms can induce worker effort by the carrot of high wages and/or the stick of monitoring worker performance. Another option available to firms is to tilt the remuneration package over ...
Pollution and reforms of domestic and trade taxes towards uniformity
(2013)
This paper builds a small open economy trade model where there is pollution from the production and consumption of goods. In the presence of production and consumption pollution, we examine a piecemeal consumer-price-neutral ...
Cooperative and non-cooperative equilibrium consumption taxes in the presence of cross-border pollution
(2013)
We consider a two small open economies model with cross-border pollution that is generated from consumption. Within this framework we examine i) the non-cooperative equilibrium consumption taxes and compare them to when ...
Welfare Effects of Immigration Policies in the Presence of Skilled, Unskilled Labor and Capital Mobility
(2011)
This paper investigates the welfare consequences of immigration policies in a model with two types of labor, skilled and unskilled, and international capital mobility. The paper examines the effect of government policies, ...