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Team Production, Gender Diversity, and Male Courtship Behavior
Siemens, Ferdinand von - CESifo - 2015
This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes expected team production if (i) men and women have similar...
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Withering Academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671696
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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009
Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051495
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Evaluation of Researchers: A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2006
considerations can be used in evaluations of university departments in order to render the resulting rankings insensitive to the age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094159
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Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?
Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - CESifo - 2008
Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … research quality is considered. Even quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405954
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Research Governance in Academia: Are there Alternatives to Academic Rankings?
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009
as important determinants of scholarly behavior. We discuss whether a stronger emphasis on selection and socialization …Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take … scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven endeavor, we include intrinsic motivation and supportive feedback by the peers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583736
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Pro Bono Work and Trust in Expert Fields
Ong, David; Yang, Chun-Lei - CESifo - 2014
A controversy has been simmering in law for at least 30 years about whether pro bono work should be mandatory for lawyers, who now donate 1-3% of their time to the poor. This has centered on the unmet legal needs of the poor, the duty of lawyers, and the contrast with US doctors, who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877904
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Use and Abuse of Authority - A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2013
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604419
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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany
Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - CESifo - 2013
We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker’s altruism, and increases or decreases with a worker’s laziness depending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667421
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The Desire for Impact
Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - CESifo - 2005
This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make firms in a competitive labor market act as monopsonists, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765963