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Gift Exchange in the Lab - It is not (only) how much you give ...

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen G. - CESifo - 2010

An important aspect in determining the effectiveness of gift exchange relations in labor markets is the ability of the worker to “repay the gift” to the employer. To test this hypothesis, we conduct a real effort laboratory experiment where we vary the wage and the effect of the worker’s...

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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a charity of the subject’s choice - to financial … incentives. We find that social incentives lead to a 13% rise in productivity, regardless of their form (lump sum or related to …-productivity subjects do not respond. When subjects can choose the mix of incentives half sacrifice some of their private compensation to …

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2014

and empirical literatures, focusing in particular on models of asymmetric tax competition, of taxation and income sorting …

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Wage Dispersion and Labor Turnover with Adverse Selection

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Kaas, Leo - CESifo - 2011

sorting obtains in equilibrium. …

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Fixed Export Costs and Export Behavior

Castro, Luis; Li, Ben; Maskus, Keith E.; Xie, Yiqing - CESifo - 2014

, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in …

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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - CESifo - 2013

employees. A series of robustness checks show that these patterns are stronger among higher educated workers; that the sorting …

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Fighting for Talent: Risk-shifting, Corporate Volatility, and Organizational Change

Friebel, Guido; Giannetti, Mariassunta - CESifo - 2002

In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organisations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital at risk are subject to risk-shifting. They realize more of their...

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Working for a Good Cause

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - CESifo - 2013

reinforcing role of altruism and mission alignment in sorting to the public sector, particularly among highly educated workers and …

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Spatial Sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and DetroitAttract the Greatest Minds as well as the Unskilled

Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2010

pattern of spatial sorting is explained by a technology with a varying elasticity of substitution that is decreasing in skill …

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Selection in Tournaments: The Case of Chess Players

Linnemer, Laurent; Visser, Michael - CESifo - 2015

We consider a simple tournament model in which individuals auto-select into the contest on the basis of their commonly known strength levels, and privately observed strength-shocks (reflecting temporary deviations from observed levels). The model predicts that the participation rate should...

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