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Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with nonintegration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … division managers. The division managers' job is to create profitable investment projects. Giving the managers incentives to do …' incentives. The resulting tradeoff between a better use of resources and diminished incentives for effort determines whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761852
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214041
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
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European Integration and Employment: A New Role for Active Fiscal Policies?
Gatti, Donatella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
than the marginal benefit for the community. This result stresses one source of coordination failure within the EMU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566365
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Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Estevão, Marcello; Sá, Filipa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals’ choice or a tool to coordinate individuals’ preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses by studying the consequences of the workweek reduction in France from 39 to 35 hours, which...
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The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities
Le, Anh T.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations of partners in couple families, the impact of children on these links, and the effects these...
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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation
Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
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