orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … 2000-2010, this paper charts the extent of orientation in the uncovered sector, and tracks average wages across bargaining … regimes as well as changes in wages from switches in regime. It is reported that orientation is growing with the decline in …

related to the acquisition of human capital, considering not just the decision on study time, but also on socialization/networking …, highlighting country-specific patterns as well as cross-country differences. We run fractional regression models and double hurdle … youngsters allocation of time to socializing and to reading and studying activities, with Italy standing out as the country where …

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

We study possible motivations for co-entrepreneurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish … performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find … co-entrepreneurial firms, both during the life of the business and post-dissolution. The start-up of co-entrepreneurial …

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … to study group dynamics in terms of accessions to and separations from teams in a manner that closely resembles workers … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but …

fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a … methodological issues related to empirical work on this topic. It then critically evaluates the cross country evidence on the effect …