Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 216
Cover Image
Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
capabilities and knowledge, considered as key inputs to foster economic growth. Then, attention will be turned to structural change … and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
Cover Image
Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763629
Cover Image
Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279260
Cover Image
Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
Cover Image
Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323
Cover Image
Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703171
Cover Image
Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
in work groups. The selection effect is larger than the motivation effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822552
Cover Image
High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W.S.; Wei, Xiangdong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763460
Cover Image
Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories
Dickinson, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763769
Cover Image
Commitment to Self-Rewards
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Self-administered rewards are ubiquitous. They serve as incentives for personal accomplish¬ments and are widely recommended as tools for overcoming self-control problems. However, it seems puzzling why self-rewards can work: the prospect of a reward has a motivating force only if the threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999154