The Impact of Technological Change on Incentive Provision
Journal title STUDI ECONOMICI
Author/s Maurizio Lisciandra
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2008/95
Language English Pages 32 P. 5-36 File size 724 KB
DOI 10.3280/STE2008-095001
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<em>The Impact of Technological Change on Incentive Provision</em> - The simple trade-off between incentive and risk, which is crucial to the agency problem, is not a sufficient explanation for the ineffectiveness of a specific output-related pay such as the contract system adopted in the US iron and steel industry during the second half of the nineteenth-century. The high rate of technological innovation along with workers’ extensive bargaining power made output-related pay a sub-optimal solution. This stylised fact unveils the conflicting nature of piece-rate pay compared to fixed pay as new technology is introduced and stimulates an analysis of the interaction between technological change, bargaining powers, and payment systems which can be conducive to a better understanding of the agency problem and the use of incentive pay. Key words: Incentive Contracts, Inside Contracting, Unions, Technological Change. JEL Classification: J33, J51, N31, O33
Maurizio Lisciandra, The Impact of Technological Change on Incentive Provision in "STUDI ECONOMICI " 95/2008, pp 5-36, DOI: 10.3280/STE2008-095001