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Vertical Specialization, International Task Fragmentation, and Convergence
Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2021
In this paper, we construct an elaborate general equilibrium model with a continuum of production fragments for an intermediate good, then embed it in a growth model to address the effects of global production fragmentation, vertical specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small...
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Competition and the Role of Group Identity
Cornaglia, Francesca - 2019
more actively in the team-building task …
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Moral Hazard in Electoral Teams
Cox, Gary W. - 2020
How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections? If each candidate's primary goal is winning a seat, then those in safe and hopeless list positions have weak incentives to campaign. We present a model in which (i) candidates care about both legislative seats and the...
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The Perks of Being in the Smaller Team : Incentives in Overlapping Contests
March, Christoph - 2020
We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in smaller units are advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for...
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The paper examines of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organisation away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the exsisting literature on the division of labour...
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Did COVID-19 Affect the Division of Labor within the Household? Evidence from Two Waves of the Pandemic in Italy
Boca, Daniela Del; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families’ lives, with parents all over the world struggling to meet the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women, particularly in countries with a traditionally...
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Division of Labor and the Organization of Knowledge in Production : A Laboratory Experiment
Klockmann, Victor; von Schenk, Alicia; von Siemens, … - 2021
Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire common knowledge. But if efficient production requires...
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Peer Effects in Product Adoption
Bailey, Michael - 2019
We study the nature of peer effects in the market for new cell phones. Our analysis builds on de-identified data from Facebook that combine information on social networks with information on users’ cell phone models. To identify peer effects, we use variation in friends’ new phone...
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Bribing in Team Contests
Dogan, Serhat - 2020
We study bribing in a sequential team contest with multiple pairwise battles. We allow for asymmetries in winning … prizes and marginal costs of effort; and we characterize the conditions under which (i) a player in a team is offered a bribe … by the owner of the other team and (ii) she accepts the bribe. We show that these conditions depend on the ratios of …
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Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA
Böheim, René - 2019
We analyze the effect of the coach’s gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach’s gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...
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