Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection

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A Bonus Given : Noise, Effort and Efficiency in a Flat Hierarchy

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Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection

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GPs’ implicit prioritization through clinical choices – evidence from three national health services

We present results from an extensive discrete choice experiment, which was conducted in three countries (Norway, Scotland, and England) with the aim of disclosing stated prescription behaviour in different decision making contexts and across different cost containment cultures. We show that GPs in all countries respond to information about societal costs, benefits and effectiveness, and that they make trade-offs between them. The UK GPs have higher willingness to accept costs when they can prescribe medicines that are cheaper or more preferred by the patient, while Norwegian GPs tend to have higher willingness to accept costs for attributes regarding effectiveness or the doctors’ experience. In general there is a substantial amount of heterogeneity also within each country. We discuss the results from the DCE in the light of the GPs’ two conflicting agency roles and what we know about the incentive structures and cultures in the different countries

Public Sector Resource Allocation Since the Financial Crisis

Acknowledgements: The authors thank Tim Butcher from the Low Pay Commission for helpful discussions regarding changes in occupation classifications. We also thank the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the UK Data Service for permitting and providing secure access to the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. All results within this paper have been checked by the UK Data Service to ensure they are non-disclosive and cannot be used to identify a person or organisation. The Health Economics Research Unit is supported by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates (SGHSC). The views expressed here are those of the Unit and not necessarily those of the CSO.Peer reviewedPostprin

Performance-related pay, efficiency wages and the shape of the tenure-earnings profile

Whilst it is well known that performance-related pay (PRP) may increase wage inequality within a firm, there is an inter-temporal lifecycle aspect that has been largely ignored in the literature. In this paper, we investigate theoretically how the introduction of PRP will influence the wage and remuneration profile over time. We develop a simple two-period model of efficiency wages that rationalizes recent empirical findings suggesting PRP flattens the pay-tenure profile. Such attenuation has important implications for the credibility of long-term employment contracts as it suggests that agency rather than human capital considerations drive the profile

Determinants of generals practitioners' wages in England

We analyse the determinants of annual net income and wages (net income/hours) of general practitioners (GPs) using data for 2,271 GPs in England recorded during Autumn 2008. The average GP had an annual net income of £97,500 and worked 43 hours per week. The mean wage was £51 per hour. Net income and wages depended on gender, experience, list size, partnership size, whether or not the GP worked in a dispensing practice, whether they were salaried or self-employed, whether they worked in a practice with a nationally or locally negotiated contract, and the characteristics of the local population (proportion from ethnic minorities, rurality, and income deprivation). The findings have implications for discrimination by GP gender and ethnicity, GP preferences for partnership size, incentives for competition for patients, compensating differentials for local population characteristics. They also shed light on the attractiveness to GPs in England of locally-negotiated (Personal Medical Services) versus nationally-negotiated (General Medical Services) contracts

Econometric bias and the estimation of male-female wage differentials

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Performance Related Pay, Efficiency Wages and the Shape of the Tenure-Earnings Profile

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