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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703774
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Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566628
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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
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Recruitment and Job Applications of Older Jobseekers from the Establishments’ Perspective
Bellmann, Lutz; Brussig, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later stages of the work life is of growing importance. On the base of microeconomic data (establishment panel of the IAB), this paper analyses firms’ characteristics correlating with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762231
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Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show that profit sharing can also represent a Pareto-improvement if labour supply is excessive due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884186
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Labour Supply, Work Effort and Contract Choice: Theory and Evidence on Physicians
Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Shearer, Bruce S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
of individual characteristics (i.e. gender, age, education level, work experience, sector of economic activity, firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416951
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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in occupational and industry mobility over the period and document the levels and time trends in mobility...
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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work, have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow workers to locate suitable job matches. Exploiting data from all four Contingent and Alternative...
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