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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a charity of the subject’s choice - to financial … incentives. We find that social incentives lead to a 13% rise in productivity, regardless of their form (lump sum or related to …-productivity subjects do not respond. When subjects can choose the mix of incentives half sacrifice some of their private compensation to …
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Gift exchange in the lab - it is not (only) how much you give ...
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Steve - 2010
An important aspect in determining the effectiveness of gift exchange relations in labor markets is the ability of the worker to repay the gift to the employer. To test this hypothesis, we conduct a real effort laboratory experiment where we vary the wage and the effect of the worker's effort on...
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Dismissal Disputes and Endogenous Sorting
Garibaldi, Pietro; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015
endogenous sorting between lengthy and costly firing procedures. The model also rationalizes the longevity of the dual Dutch …
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Fixed Export Costs and Export Behavior
Castro, Luis; Li, Ben; Maskus, Keith E.; Xie, Yiqing - 2014
, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in …
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Sorting on the Used-Car Market After the Volkswagen Emission Scandal
Strittmatter, Anthony; Lechner, Michael - 2017
quality of VW diesel vehicles. We consider a classical model for adverse selection and sorting to derive an empirically …
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Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Rinawi, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...
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Paying for what kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs
Jones, Daniel; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating compensation and mission, to answer these questions....
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Spatial sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled
Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2010
pattern of spatial sorting is explained by a technology with a varying elasticity of substitution that is decreasing in skill …
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Wage dispersion and labor turnover with adverse selection
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Kaas, Leo - 2011
sorting obtains in equilibrium. …
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Spatial Search
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2024
This paper considers a random search model where some locations provide sellers with better chances of meeting many buyers than other locations (for example popular shopping streets or the first page of a search engine). When sellers are heterogeneous in terms of the quality of their product...
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