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Performance Pay, Risk Attitudes and Job Satisfaction
Cornelißen, Thomas; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
We present a sorting model in which workers with greater ability and greater risk tolerance move into performance pay jobs and contrast it with the classic agency model of performance pay. Estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel confirm testable implications drawn from our sorting model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018705
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The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
individual data on subjective well-being it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two … analysis with data from the European Social Survey, we find considerable gains from matching amounting to an increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018724
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Der "Gender Pay Gap" in Führungspositionen der Privatwirtschaft in Deutschland
Holst, Elke; Busch, Anne - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
geschlechtsspezifischen Segregation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sowie haushaltsbezogener Kontrollvariablen führt zunächst dazu, dass der "gender pay … gap" zu über zwei Dritteln erklärt werden kann. Das tatsächliche Ausmaß der Nachteile von Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt wird erst … Arbeitsmarkt und in Unternehmen, die zum Nachteil von Frauen wirken und den Aufstieg in eine Führungsposition erschweren. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018709
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018742
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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Roelfsema, Hein - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018695
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Higher and Higher?: Performance Pay and Wage Inequality in Germany
Sommerfeld, Katrin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the growing use of performance pay schemes is related to the increase in wage inequality?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010601627
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The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities: Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work
Felfe, Christina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552727
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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Persönlichkeit: "Wer schaffen will, muss fröhlich sein!"
Fietze, Simon - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
The research on job satisfaction has a long history and is one of the most intensively studied subjects - not only in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The various studies can roughly be classified into situational, dispositional, and hybrid approaches, depending on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009210942
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Beschäftigungsstruktur und Zufriedenheit von Zeitarbeitnehmern in Deutschland
Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes; Minten, Axel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel of the years 2001-2012, we investigate determinants of temporary agency work. Moreover, we explore possible explanations for differences between temp and regular workers as well as unemployed people regarding their work and life satisfaction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129008
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Impact of Working Hours on Work-Life Balance
Holly, Sarah; Mohnen, Alwine - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
To examine the influence of working hours on employees' satisfaction, this article uses a large, representative set of panel data from German households (GSOEP). The results show that high working hours and overtime in general do not lead to decreased satisfaction. Rather, increasing working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185777