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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

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Regional Clusters of Innovative Activity in Europe: Are Social Capital and Geographical Proximity the Key Determinants?

Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...

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Organization Context and Human Resource Management in the Small Firm

Kok, Jan de; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

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Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition

Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...

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The Degradation of Distorted Performance Measures

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...

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Testing for Distortions in Performance Measures: An Application to Residual Income Based Measures like Economic Value Added

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'Journal of Economics and Management Strategy', forthcoming.<P> Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical...</p>

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Biased Supervision

Delfgaauw, Josse; Souverijn, Michiel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

When verifiable performance measures are imperfect, organizations often resort to subjective performance pay. This may give supervisors the power to direct employees towards tasks that mainly benefit the supervisor rather than the organization. We cast a principal-supervisor-agent model in a...

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The Mediating Role of Psychosocial Benefits in the Satisfaction Formation Process

Prevo, Olaf; Leunisse, Patrick; Roest, Henk - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

/dissatisfaction formation process. Most research on this subject deals with thecausality direction of psychosocial benefits and satisfaction … psychosocial benefits within a customer satisfaction framework. Knowledge ofwhich functional benefit can control which psychosocial … benefit directly enables themanagement of customer satisfaction and indirectly purchase intention. Using Partial LeastSquares …

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Does Accessibility to Higher Education matter? Choice Behavior of High School Graduates in the Netherlands

Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper identifies pivotal factors behind individual decision-making in the transition from high school to post-secondary education in the Netherlands. We apply a multinomial logit framework to individual data on post-secondary education choices. Specifically, our modeling approach...

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On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is prevailing in the voting power literature. We demonstrate that … both notions are conceptually distinct, and discuss their relationship and measurement. We show that satisfaction contains … in order to illustrate the difference between success and satisfaction. In the context of the discussion of both notions …

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