Yes / We suggest that real collars may be acceptable incentives for encouraging development of low (or no) carbon energy generating facilities as an alternative for high feed‐in‐tariffs. We provide novel analytical solutions for real collars and partial collars, plus floor and ceiling partial derivatives. The ‘gains/losses’ of the energy generator as perceived parameter values change are compared to those of the government providing the collar, and floor or ceiling only, viewing the arrangement as a real option game between principal and agent. A volatility increase first increases, then decreases the ‘gains’ of the generator.

Incentive pay systems are of interest to both researchers and practitioners as a way to improve employee productivity and efficiency. Past research has considered the design of incentive systems, the effects of systems and costs/benefits to employers. Little consideration has been given to another issue: what characteristics are associated with high incentive pay performers? Research that has considered the effect of personal variables on incentive-rewarded performance has failed to provide a theoretical framework in which findings could be considered, and thus lacks the underlying unity and cohesiveness that a theoretical model could provide. In order to investigate the relationship between an individual's characteristics and incentive-rewarded performance, a questionnaire was administered to 453 employees of a major garment manufacturer. Employees responded to questions about their background, their interests and their attitudes toward their work. Performance was measured using employee production data from a nine week period collected by the company. This study proposed and investigated a theoretical model of piecework performance which postulates that motivation, within a piecework setting, is a function of the valences of pay and workgroup affiliation. This model proposes that this measure of motivation, in combination with an ability measure, is related to performance. Quantitative results indicate that this model is useful in understanding piecework performance. Both the valence of pay and ability were found to be predictive of performance. Moreover, the valence of pay was related to age and Protestant ethic while previous findings that employees high in affiliation need were susceptible to rate restriction were not supported. Findings from this study hold promise for more effective selection of piecework employees and add insight into the use of incentive pay to increase individual performance. / Ph. D.

To seek a greater understanding of peacebuilding there is a need for a multifaceted approach. This in part entails exploring the contextual economic conditions of conflicts, and the possibilities of removing these conditions and utilizing economic gains to act as incentives to create stakeholders in peace processes. In Northern Ireland there was a perceived link between the weak economic situation and violent conflict. Economic inequality was stoking animosity and unemployment was generating disillusionment. As peace was reached in 1998 and successfully sustained, there is an intrinsic value in exploring the peacebuilding processes. Through a mixed-method approach incorporating a content analysis of The Irish Times articles from 1994-1998 and a sequential analysis of descriptive statistics from 1998-2019 the concept of peace dividends has been explored. The results show how a coherent and consistent construction of peace dividends was made by political and economic elites and disseminated to the public, building expectations from peace. A peace dividend was constructed based on increased trade and improved economic co-operation with Ireland, inclusive/equitable distribution of prosperity and opportunities, job creation, and increased FDI and jobs generated through FDI. Following an analysis of the development of these aspects of peace dividends, the results indicate improvements regarding increased trade and economic co-operation with Ireland, increased ability to attract FDI projects, and a consistent yearly improvement of disposable household income. Where the most significant development can be observed and, hence, the part of the peace dividend that has been most successful, is within the labour market. Unemployment has decreased and a convergence in opportunities to participate between Protestant and Catholic communities has been facilitated. Generating a more inclusive labour market and diminishing the disillusionment of unemployment from the past.

This thesis is composed of three essays. The first essay studies price setting behavior by sales agents of an electrical wholesale company following a change in their compensation contract. Originally, agents received a fixed share of the revenues from their sales. Under the new scheme, commission rates increase with the price-cost margin of the sale. The reform was enacted at different times in different stores, enabling measurement of its impact by difference-in-differences. Commissions on 95% of goods increase but agents do not raise prices on all these products. Despite the stronger financial incentives, the price of 18% of goods decreases and increases for the rest, suggesting agents reallocate effort among products. The second essay explores the importance of employee-customer relationships as an incentive and price discriminating tool. The model assumes that customers differ in their valuations and in their probability of returning (q). The distribution of valuations and q are known, and in each interaction the sales agent exerts effort to learn the customer’s valuation. The agent earns a commission based on the client’s payment and has full pricing flexibility. The two main insights are that, when the valuation is unknown, effort is increasing in q and the effect of a commission raise has an inverted-U relation with customers’ probability of returning. Prices should be increasing in effort. Using administrative data from an electrical company, I show evidence supporting the theoretical insights. The third essay analyses the determinants of teachers’ occupational choice and how changes in financial incentives modify individuals’ occupation choices. Among college graduates, teachers have both low average Armed Forces Qualification Test scores (AFQT) and high average risk aversion. Using a dynamic optimization model with unobserved heterogeneity, we find that were it possible to make teacher compensation mimic the return to skills and riskiness of the non-teaching sector, overall compensation in teaching would increase. Moreover, such a shift would substantially reduce the utility of many current teachers, making the process of reform challenging. Importantly, the results of policy exercises are very sensitive to the degree of heterogeneity included in the model.

Förmågan att motivera medarbetare har alltid varit en viktig fråga i alla olika typer av företag. Ett verktyg som kan användas för att skapa motivation bland de anställda är incitamentssystem, både monetära samt icke-monetära. Det finns inget tydligt svar i tidigare forskning kring vad för typ av incitamentssystem som uppfattas som mest effektiva när det kommer till att motivera anställda. Exempelvis har en del studier visat att monetära incitament så som bonus har en positiv effekt på motivationen på kort sikt. Samtidigt visar andra studier att monetära incitament inte alls fungerar. Således är syftet med denna studie att beskriva och analysera hur medarbetare upplever incitamentssystem med avseende på motivation. För att uppnå detta syfte har vi genomfört en kvalitativ flerfallstudie i två olika företag där det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom intervjuer. Studiens frågeställning: Hur upplevs incitamentssystem hos medarbetare inom olika branscher med avseende på motivation? Studien har visat att icke-monetära incitament har en betydande effekt på medarbetarnas motivation i båda fallföretagen. Vidare visar resultatet att de monetära incitamenten också upplevdes som viktiga, men det empiriska materialet gällande de monetära incitamenten följde inte samma röda tråd som de icke-monetära: ett av företagen upplevde de monetära incitamenten mer viktiga med avseende på motivation än det andra företaget. / The ability to motivate employees has always been an important question in all kind of companies. One way the create motivation among the employees is to use incentive systems, both monetary and non-monetary. There are no clear answers in previous theories what kind of incentive system that perceives as the most effective in terms of motivated employees. For example, some research has shown that monetary incentives such as bonus is an effective way to motivate employees in the short term, while others disagree. Accordingly, the purpose of the study is to describe and analyze how employees perceive current incentive systems in terms of motivation. To fulfill this purpose, we have done a qualitative multiple case study in two specific companies. The empirical material has been collected by interviews. The research question in the thesis is as follows: How are incentive systems perceived by employees in different line of businesses in terms of motivation? The empirical results show that non-monetary incentives have a significant impact on employees' motivation in both case studies. Furthermore, the monetary incentives perceived important as well in both case studies, but the empirical result indicated that monetary incentives didn’t follow the same consistent thread as it did in the non-monetary incentives: one of the case study perceived the monetary incentives as more important in terms of motivation than the other.

While there are numerous examples of research investigating who would protest and why, the research fields of social movements and political participation have not done enough to understand the motivations of women in protest. Nor are there enough studies of the mobilisation of women in anti-regime protest in a post-communist context. This thesis investigates what motivates women in non-democratic settings to participate in protest, despite the elevated costs and risks given the context. It examines Belarus, a protest movement where women have taken on a prevalent role in the protest movement of 2020. The research design is a within-case study using the method of in-depth interviews. I conduct interviews with ten Belarusian female protesters who are found primarily via a snowball sampling technique. The transcribed interviews are analysed using a framework of collective and selective incentives. The study finds that discontent with the government and belief in the movement’s success are significant motivations, while there is not belief that their own participation will enhance the likelihood of success. Results also show that respondents were motivated by the violence used against protesters, a newfound sense of community between Belarusians, solidarity with protesters, the peaceful repertoires in the movement and group belongingness with other women. Taken together, these results deepen our understanding of protests as motivations in themselves and of motivation as a resource, but foremost of why women protest. The results might incentivise more research to be made on women’s role in protest and motivations to join social movements.

The main objective of the study is to show how the use of tax incentives as means of attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is threatening the realisation of socio-economic rights in Africa. Particular attention is given on how the granting of generous tax incentives can affect the proper and adequate provision of public services and infrastructures by highly reducing government revenue. The research does not intend to analyse the impact of loss of revenue through tax incentives on each and every socio-economic right. Rather the focus is on its general impact on obligations of African states to respect, protect and fulfill socio-economic rights as derived from the major international, regional and national human rights instruments / Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2008. / A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of Mr Pramod Bissessur, Faculty of Law and Management, University of Mauritius / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/ / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

Counting Carrots… as this cross-section study is entitled studied the distribution of motivation incentives in Central Stockholm’s banking sector and if it varied for different groups of bank-employees, according to bank-employees. This variation in the distribution of employee benefits was examined quantitatively in accordance to three explanatory variables: 1 – Job position, 2 – Bank size and 3 – the Gender of respondents. On account of the above variables, three hypotheses were propounded from: the concept of separating firm ownership and control, economies of scale and experience and the theory on labor market dualism. Concerning Bank size, empirical proof showed that the distribution of employee incentives in Big banks varied more than it did in Small banks thanks to cost and resource saving advantages. Nevertheless, this study was unsuccessful in producing adequate empirical evidence to indicate such variation in motivation incentives when considering employees’ Job position and Gender. This lack of empirical proof contradicted notions from relevant theoretical constructs on divorcing firm ownership from control and from the dual labor market theory. In some respects, conclusions arrived at were not consistent with what Davydenko et al. (2017) observed in Poznan, Poland on a similar topic about incentives diversity. In future, more work remains to be done which should include more features of motivation incentives such as their quality versus quantity or/and their degree of effectiveness in elevating employee engagement with the intent to improve or complement the produced findings from this study. / Denna tvärsnittsstudie har undersökt variabilitet på de verktyg som banker i Stockholm använder för att höja motivationen bland sina anställda. Studiens metod har varit kvantitativ, där respondenterna utgjorts av bankanställda i Stockholm. Studiens insamlade data har sedan granskats mot tre förklarande variabler: 1 – anställningsposition, 2 – storleken på den bank som respondenten är anställd på, och slutligen 3 – respondentens kön. Beträffande anställningsposition och kön lyckades studien inte finna några övertygande empiriska bevis på att dessa variabler hade någon tydlig effekt på hur motivationsincitamenten mottogs. Däremot förefaller storleken på banken vara av betydelse, där större banker erbjuder större incitamentvariabilitet för sina anställda, än små banker. I vissa fall har de slutsatser som dragits varken varit förenliga med den relevanta teorin eller i överensstämmelse med vad Davydenko et al. (2017) observerade när de studerade ett liknande ämne i staden Poznan. I framtiden återstår emellertid mer arbete, vilket bör utgå från en större mängd egenskaper av incitamentsverktyg. Till yttermera visso bör motivationsincitamentens kvalitet kontra kvantitet studeras med frågor såsom huruvida specifika personalförmåner verkligen uppfyller sitt tänkta syfte eller ej. Detta för att komplettera och/eller nyansera de upptäckter som gjorts i Att räkna morötter...

Infrastruktursektorn har ofta varit kritiserad för brist på effektivitet och innovation i projekten. Samtidigt står infrastruktursektorn för en stor andel av koldioxidutsläppen i Sverige. De flesta länder har infört strategier och policys för att uppnå de uppsatta klimatmålen. Incitament har identifierats kunna påverka motivationen hos leverantörerna i att utveckla hållbara lösningar. Det finns en generell avsaknad av incitament kopplat till prestationer i tidiga skeden där konsulter är aktiva. Tidigare studier rekommenderar att utveckla modeller för att bistå beställaren i att agera för ökad samverkan och innovation i projekteringsprocessen. Detta examensarbete har därför till syfte att undersöka hur incitament för konsulter upplevs påverka klimatåtgärder samt vilka möjligheter, hinder och risker som finns med incitament kopplat till klimatåtgärder i tidiga skeden. Detta för att slutligen kunna nå en slutsats i vad som saknas för att kunna formulera incitament i konsultkontrakt. För att studera detta används tre incitamentsroller från tidigare forskning som teoretiskt perspektiv. Studien visar att incitament kan skapa utrymme för individer att arbeta med utvecklingsfrämjande åtgärder inom klimat förutsatt att de övergripande målen är nedbrutna på projektnivå. Incitament kan stimulera och motivera till en ökad prestation i organisationer i projekt med stark fokus på tid och kostnad. För att det ska fungera, behöver det finnas en mätbarhet i incitamentet för att konsulten ska kunna utföra arbetet och beställaren ska kunna utvärdera. Det finns en risk att andra områden blir nedprioriterat till följd av att incitament kopplas till ett specifikt område. I tidiga skeden finns det en högre påverkansgrad att optimera lösningar som kan leda till minskad klimatbelastning. Studien visar att det finns en avsaknad av vad klimatpåverkan är i ett projekt i normalfall, och detta behöver definieras i syfte att kunna mäta klimatreducerande åtgärder mot normalfallet eftersom mätbarheten anses viktig. Vidare har projektledarens engagemang och målstyrning i frågan en avgörande roll i hur framgångsrikt ett incitament blir. Det anses viktigt att tydliggöra målet för att skapa fokus inom organisationen, på så vis att incitament ska få önskad effekt. / The infrastructure sector has often been criticized for lack of efficiency and innovation in projects. At the same time, the infrastructure stands for a major amount of the carbon dioxide emissions in Sweden. Most countries have introduced strategies and policies in order to achieve the set climate goals. Incentives have been identified to have an impact on supplier’s motivation to deliver sustainable solutions. There is an overall lack in incentives linked to performance in early stages when the consultant is involved. Previous research shows that models should be developed to assist the client in including more cooperation and innovation in the design process. Therefore, this thesis intends to investigate in how incentives for the consultant are perceived to impact climate actions. Also, what possibilities, obstacles and risks are there in including incentives linked to climate action in early stages. This is in order to reach the conclusion of what is missing in the process of forming incentives in consulting contracts. To examine these questions, three roles of incentives from previous research was used as a theoretical perspective. This study shows that incentives can create room for individuals to work with actions that aims to develop the work within climate, given that the overalls climate goals are broken down and customized for the specific project. Incentives can stimulate and motivate to enhanced performance in organisations, in projects with otherwise strong focus on time and budget. For this to work, there needs to be measurability in incentives for the consultant to be able to perform and the client to evaluate the work. However, there is a risk for other areas within the project to be down prioritized following an incentive linked to a specific area. In early stages there is a higher possibility to impact the solutions in the project, which can result in reduction of negative climate impact. The study shows that there is a lack of knowledge in matter of what the climate impact is in a project normally, and this needs to be defined in order to measure climate actions against the normal case because the measurability is considered to be important. Moreover, the project manager´s commitment and objectives management in the area plays a big role in how successful the incentives will be. It is also important to clarify the goals for the organisation to focus on, by doing this the incentive can reach the desired effect.

Infrastruktursektorn har ofta varit kritiserad för brist på effektivitet och innovation i projekten. Samtidigt står infrastruktursektorn för en stor andel av koldioxidutsläppen i Sverige. De flesta länder har infört strategier och policys för att uppnå de uppsatta klimatmålen. Incitament har identifierats kunna påverka motivationen hos leverantörerna i att utveckla hållbara lösningar. Det finns en generell avsaknad av incitament kopplat till prestationer i tidiga skeden där konsulter är aktiva. Tidigare studier rekommenderar att utveckla modeller för att bistå beställaren i att agera för ökad samverkan och innovation i projekteringsprocessen. Detta examensarbete har därför till syfte att undersöka hur incitament för konsulter upplevs påverka klimatåtgärder samt vilka möjligheter, hinder och risker som finns med incitament kopplat till klimatåtgärder i tidiga skeden. Detta för att slutligen kunna nå en slutsats i vad som saknas för att kunna formulera incitament i konsultkontrakt. För att studera detta används tre incitamentsroller från tidigare forskning som teoretiskt perspektiv. Studien visar att incitament kan skapa utrymme för individer att arbeta med utvecklingsfrämjande åtgärder inom klimat förutsatt att de övergripande målen är nedbrutna på projektnivå. Incitament kan stimulera och motivera till en ökad prestation i organisationer i projekt med stark fokus på tid och kostnad. För att det ska fungera, behöver det finnas en mätbarhet i incitamentet för att konsulten ska kunna utföra arbetet och beställaren ska kunna utvärdera. Det finns en risk att andra områden blir nedprioriterat till följd av att incitament kopplas till ett specifikt område. I tidiga skeden finns det en högre påverkansgrad att optimera lösningar som kan leda till minskad klimatbelastning. Studien visar att det finns en avsaknad av vad klimatpåverkan är i ett projekt i normalfall, och detta behöver definieras i syfte att kunna mäta klimatreducerande åtgärder mot normalfallet eftersom mätbarheten anses viktig. Vidare har projektledarens engagemang och målstyrning i frågan en avgörande roll i hur framgångsrikt ett incitament blir. Det anses viktigt att tydliggöra målet för att skapa fokus inom organisationen, på så vis att incitament ska få önskad effekt. / The infrastructure sector has often been criticized for lack of efficiency and innovation in projects. At the same time, the infrastructure stands for a major amount of the carbon dioxide emissions in Sweden. Most countries have introduced strategies and policies in order to achieve the set climate goals. Incentives have been identified to have an impact on supplier’s motivation to deliver sustainable solutions. There is an overall lack in incentives linked to performance in early stages when the consultant is involved. Previous research shows that models should be developed to assist the client in including more cooperation and innovation in the design process. Therefore, this thesis intends to investigate in how incentives for the consultant are perceived to impact climate actions. Also, what possibilities, obstacles and risks are there in including incentives linked to climate action in early stages. This is in order to reach the conclusion of what is missing in the process of forming incentives in consulting contracts. To examine these questions, three roles of incentives from previous research was used as a theoretical perspective. This study shows that incentives can create room for individuals to work with actions that aims to develop the work within climate, given that the overalls climate goals are broken down and customized for the specific project. Incentives can stimulate and motivate to enhanced performance in organisations, in projects with otherwise strong focus on time and budget. For this to work, there needs to be measurability in incentives for the consultant to be able to perform and the client to evaluate the work. However, there is a risk for other areas within the project to be down prioritized following an incentive linked to a specific area. In early stages there is a higher possibility to impact the solutions in the project, which can result in reduction of negative climate impact. The study shows that there is a lack of knowledge in matter of what the climate impact is in a project normally, and this needs to be defined in order to measure climate actions against the normal case because the measurability is considered to be important. Moreover, the project manager´s commitment and objectives management in the area plays a big role in how successful the incentives will be. It is also important to clarify the goals for the organisation to focus on, by doing this the incentive can reach the desired effect.