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Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

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Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus comparisons reduces satisfaction and subsequent performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if...

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Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...

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Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?

Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....

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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income

Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices – paid...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …

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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation …

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Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute

Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently...

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Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition among University Students

Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita; Nardotto, Mattia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

higher effort with respect to cooperation and cooperation does not increase effort with respect to the baseline. However …

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