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Sequential or Non-sequential Recruitment?

Ommeren, Jos van; Russo, Giovanni - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper examines the recruitment process of firms. We test whether firms search sequentially or non …. We distinguish between different types of recruitment methods. We find that the sequential hiring is rejected for a … applications by job seekers. Informal recruitment methods tend to imply sequential search. …

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The Attractiveness of Temporary Employment to Reduce Adjustment Costs

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...

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Social Exchange and Common Agency in Organizations

Dur, Robert; Roelfsema, Hein - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate to a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...

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Competition and Well-Being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...

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Peer Evaluation: Incentives and Co-Worker Relations

Sol, Joeri - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

In many workplaces co-workers have the best information about each other's effort. Managers may attempt to exploit this information through peer evaluation. I study peer evaluation in a pure moral hazard model of production by two limitedly liable agents. Agents receive a signal about their...

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Endogenous Effort Norms in Hierarchical Firms

Tichem, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper studies how a three-layer hierarchical firm (principal-supervisor-agent) optimally creates effort norms for its employees. The key assumption is that effort norms are affected by the example of superiors. In equilibrium, norms are eroded as one moves down the hierarchy. The reason is...

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Employee Types and Endogenous Organizational Design

Cunyat, Antoni; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization' (2011). Volume 80, issue 3, pages 553-573.<P> When managers are sufficiently guided by social preferences, incentive provision through an organizational mode based on informal implicit contracts may...</p>

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The Breakdown of Morale

Vikander, Nick - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members learn that lay-offs will occur at a fixed future date,...

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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives

Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace

Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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