Tag
piece_rate
2 findings
Labour & employmentFinancial Relief vs Incentive DichotomyIncreasing payment per plate from INR 2 to INR 4 modestly increased production speed by 0.036 plates per hour but had zero effect on worker attentiveness. Conversely, early cash relief increased both production speed (+0.27 plates/hour) and high attentiveness (+7.7 percentage points) by reducing financial anxiety.RCTLabour & employmentOrthogonal Effort-Attention FrameworkEach Rs. 1 piece-rate increase raised output by 0.020 SDs (p=0.042) but had a zero or slightly negative effect on attentiveness (-0.013 SDs, p=0.198; equality test p=0.001), establishing that effort and attention operate via independent mechanisms.RCT