Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Published By: BREAD on eSS | Published Date: January, 01 , 2014This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change. The setting is a tea plantation in
India. The activity in question is tea-plucking, the output from which is measurable and contractible.
Payments to pluckers consist of a baseline wage, along with piece rates per kilogram of output that
vary over different production intervals. [BREAD working paper no. 412].
Author(s): Rajshri Jayaraman, Debraj Ray, Francis de V´ericourt | Posted on: Jan 24, 2014 | Views(552) | Download (533)