Lazear和Rosen的《Rank－Order》Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts中的序言如下：

This paper analyzes compensation schemes which pay accroding to an individual's ordinal rank in an organization rather than his output level.

When workers are risk neutral,it is shown that wages based upon rank induce the same efficient allocation of resources as an incentive reward scheme based on individual output levels. Under some circumstances, risk-adverse workers actually prefer to be paid on the basis of rank.

In addition, if workers are heterogeneous in ability, low-quality workers attempt to contaminate high-quality firms, resulting in adverse selection. However, if ability is known in advance, a competitive handicapping structure exists which allows all workers to compete efficiently in the same organization.

我的理解是：红字部分的上一句是说，“另外，如果工人的能力是异质的，则低能力的工人会去干扰高质量的生产，从而产生逆向选择。”我认为红字部分是说：然而，如果能力能够被提前知道，则一个竞争性的跛足结构就会存在，在这个结构中所有的工人都能够有效竞争。

其中，我猜想作者说的“跛足结构”就是指一个企业中能力有高有低的那种结构，不知各位意下如何？欢迎讨论！

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-4-5 15:41:01编辑过]