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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1986

This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...

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Can a Work Organization Have an Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes

Bartel, Ann - 2003

significant positive cross-sectional correlation between branch-level employee attitudes and branch sales performance is not …

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2008

We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from … effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000 industrial scientists and engineers (SESTAT 2003), we find that individuals …' motives have significant effects upon innovative effort and performance. These effects vary significantly, however, by the …

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Corporate income retention : 1915 - 43

Dobrovolsky, Sergei Petrovic - 1951

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Robots and Labor in the Service Sector : Evidence from Nursing Homes

Eggleston, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In one of the first studies of service sector robotics using establishment-level data, we study the impact of robots on staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that robot adoption increases employment by augmenting...

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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire

Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

performance: a range of practical targeting mechanisms achieve impacts close to a machine learning benchmark by maximizing …

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The Psychosocial Value of Employment

Hussam, Reshmaan N.; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In settings where an individual's labor choices are constrained, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field experiment with...

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Deadly Discrimination : Implications of "Missing Girls" for Workplace Safety

Tan, Zhibo; Wei, Shang-jin; Zhang, Xiaobo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the "missing girls" phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but potentially dangerous jobs. In response, employers invest less in workplace safety, which...

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How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons

Cullen, Zoë - 2018

We study how employees learn about the salaries of their peers and managers and how their beliefs about those salaries affect their own behavior. We conducted a field experiment with a sample of 2,060 employees from a multi-billion dollar corporation. We combine rich data from surveys and...

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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

List, John A. - 2017

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a cornerstone of modern business practice, developing from a "why" in the 1960s to a "must" today. Early empirical evidence on both the demand and supply sides has largely confirmed CSR's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a large-scale...

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