One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...

This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skills in these changes using a matched employer-employee data set. This data set enables us to account for firm heterogeneity and obtain a more refined picture of the impact of skills. The methodology...

The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating competitions provide a unique opportunity to study subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests...

We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and also explore the impact of PA on performance pay...

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

Nach wie vor klafft eine erhebliche Lücke zwischen den durchschnittlichen Arbeitsentgelten pro Stunde von Frauen und Männern. Aktuell beträgt in Deutschland der Gender-Pay-Gap 18 Prozent (2021). Um diese Entgeltlücke zu verringern, trat 2017 das Entgelttransparenzgesetz (EntgTranspG) in...

Bis zum Jahr 2020 wird im ambulanten Pflegesektor ein Nachfrageüberhang im Umfang von 25.000 Vollzeitbeschäftigten erwartet. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, Effizienzpotenziale beim Personaleinsatz im ambulanten Pflegesektor mithilfe einer Data Envelopment Analyse zu identifizieren. Die...