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And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts
Chongvilaivan, Aekapol; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216290
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Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories
Lake, Henrietta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
low-wage environment, HRM and work organization have a tangible and independent impact on performance. …What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such … investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247696
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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data
Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Nielsen, Niels Westergaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments. We find evidence that workers in hazardous workplace conditions are indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469712
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Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human resource concepts. These tests often need detailed firm-specific data. Repetition and comparison of results is key in finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763801
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Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627842
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Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?
Grimm, Michael; Hartwig, Renate; Lay, Jann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support the idea that there are two behavioural patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627850
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul; Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822618
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Legitimacy of Control
Schnedler, Wendelin; Vadovic, Radovan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
What is the motivational effect of imposing a minimum effort requirement? Agents may no longer exert voluntary effort but merely meet the requirement. Here, we examine how such hidden costs of control change when control is considered legitimate. We study a principalagent model where control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822988
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The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We evaluate the effects of a reduction in sick pay from 100 to 80% of the wage. Unlike previous literature, apart from absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514871
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Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector: Evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522417