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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...

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Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

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Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of … removed from the sample but unlike the size of government, the results on corruption are not confirmed by country-level fixed …. Our results indicate that entrepreneurial entry is inversely related to the size of the government, and more weakly to the …

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High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark

Cristini, Annalisa; Eriksson, Tor; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

High-performance work practices are frequently considered to have positive effects on corporate performance, but what do they do for employees? After assessing the correlation between organizational innovation and firm performance, this article investigates whether high-involvement work...

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

When a society overthrows a ruler – call the ruler Caesar – what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value...

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Consistency in Organization (updated)

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Internal organization relies heavily on psychological consistency requirements. This thought has been emphasized in modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of...

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Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Grund, Christian; Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

executive's internal career. Our data show that bonus payments are mostly prevalent among senior executives at higher hierarchy …

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Turf Wars

Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to...

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