Status Incentives

Status Incentives

When economists study incentives in organizations, the main focus has been on using monetary payments in exchange for performance on speci c measurable dimensions. But organizations use a wide variety of means to motivate their workers. One such method which has not been studied much to date, is the explicit creation of status rewards attached to good performance.1 Under such schemes, an agent ...

Status and Incentives

Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium

Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value frame...

Incentives

THE subject of this short paper was chosen quite deliberately-not because one has any fresh contribution to make to it, nor because it can be summarised briefly, but because it gives me yet another opportunity of saying that the practice of Occupational Medicine is more than the provision of casualty services, the study of toxic hazards, and the diagnosis and prevention of industrial diseases. ...

Performance-based Incentives to Improve Health Status of Mothers and Newborns: What Does the Evidence Show?

Performance-based incentives (PBIs) aim to counteract weak providers' performance in health systems of many developing countries by providing rewards that are directly linked to better health outcomes for mothers and their newborns. Translating funding into better health requires many actions by a large number of people. The actions span from community to the national level. While different for...