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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction. Using individual-level SWB data allows us to control for several …

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Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

principals who control. The reason is that most agents lower their performance as a response to the signal of distrust created by …

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Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

implement a control strategy, which consists of low effort discretion and little or no rent-sharing, or they implement a trust … control strategy prevails, while the possibility of screening renders the trust strategy profitable. The introduction of …

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Trust and Control at the Workplace: Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of … strict working time regulations, monitoring and lack of autonomy – all indicators for control at the workplace – are …

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …

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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of...

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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …

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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...

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