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Snower, Dennis J.; Goerlich, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage …

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On the Prudence of Rewarding A While Hoping for B

Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In multiple-task hidden-action models, the (mis-)allocation of effort may play an important role for benefit creation. Signals which capture this benefit and which are used in incentive schemes should thus not only be judged by the noise and the associated costs but also by the mis-allocation...

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

Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Dumont, Etienne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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

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Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

multitasking than whites, with Pakistani and Bangladeshi males spending the least time. The gap is present for both ethnic minority … males and females, although females in general engage more in multitasking. The effect is also heterogeneous across …

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The Multitasking of Household Production

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Foster, Gigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that …

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Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort

Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a “good” allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity...

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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the … increase in individual stress after the economic, cultural and political consequences of reunification. …

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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance

Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...

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Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth: Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain

Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Ródenas-Serrano, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining information on the number of bomb casualties from The Victims of ETA Dataset with the individual birth records from the national registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the...

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Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments

Delaney, Liam; Fink, Günther; Harmon, Colm P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision … intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …

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