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Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We … performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if information about one's relative standing towards the reference point is withheld. …

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Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...

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Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?

Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....

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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income

Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices – paid...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom

Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

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Entrepreneurial Couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam C. van; Thompson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

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Run for Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance

Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …

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Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence

Frederiksen, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings...

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Analysis of Pay Inequality and its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Kim, Yunhee; Lee, Jeong-Dong; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality … relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector …

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