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Tournaments and Office Politics:Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Schirm, John - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhapswhen workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability andoutput in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect oftournaments is thin...

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Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases

Oechssler, Jörg; Roider, Andreas; Schmitz, Patrick W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities...

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The Lot of the Unemployed : A Time Use Perspective

Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job[...]

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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly little research explores why Mexican-Americans are less likely to start businesses and why the businesses that they start are less successful on average than non-Latino whites...

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Subjective Performance Evaluation and Inequality Aversion

Grund, Christian; Przemeck, Judith - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

supervisorstend to assess the employees too good (leniency bias) and that the appraisals hardly varyacross employees of a certain … supervisor (centrality bias). We explain these two biases in amodel with a supervisor, who has preferences for the utility of her …

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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education : New Evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation...

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Blood Donations and Incentives : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Goette, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in … blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood … donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning three months and involving more than 10,000 previous donors... …

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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household …

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Physicians´ Multitasking and Incentives:Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within amultitasking environment. In 1999 the …

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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies using either quarterly or annual data from differentcountries with varying institutional frameworks, it is not yet clear whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the...

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