Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Shingo Takahashi
Author-Name-First: Shingo
Author-Name-Last: Takahashi
Author-Email: staka@iuj.ac.jp
Author-Workplace-Name: International University of University
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.iuj.ac.jp/
Author-Name: Hideo Owan
Author-Name-First: Hideo
Author-Name-Last: Owan
Author-Email: owan@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Author-Name: Tsuyoshi Tsuru
Author-Name-First: Tsuyoshi
Author-Name-Last: Tsuru
Author-Email: tsuru@ier.hit-u.ac.jp
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/
Author-Name: Katsuhito Uehara
Author-Name-First: Katsuhito
Author-Name-Last: Uehara
Author-Email: uehara@sta.tenri-u.ac.jp
Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Human Studies, Tenri University
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.tenri-u.ac.jp/en/ariirh000000050n.html
Title: Perceptions to climatic changes and cooperative attitudes toward flood protection in Bangladesh
Abstract: Subjective performance evaluation serves as a double-edged sword. While it can mitigate multitasking agency problems, it also opens the door to evaluators' biases, resulting in lower job satisfaction and a higher rate of worker quits. Using the personnel records of individual sales representatives in a major car sales company in Japan, we provide direct evidence for both sides of subjective performance evaluation: (1) the sensitivity of evaluations to sales performance declines with the marginal productivity of hard-to-measure tasks, and (2) measures of potential evaluation bias we construct are positively associated with worker quits, after correcting for possible endogeneity biases.
Classification-JEL: M52, M55
Length: 53 pages
Creation-Date: 2014-08
Number: EMS_2014_11
File-URL: https://www.iuj.ac.jp/workingpapers/index.cfm?File=EMS_2014_11.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2014
File-Size: 433KB
Handle: RePEc:iuj:wpaper:EMS_2014_11