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Efficiency Wages with Motivated Agents
Armouti-Hansen, Jesper - 2020
Many organizations nowadays combine profits with a social mission. This paper reveals a new hidden benefit of the mission: its role in facilitating the emergence of efficiency wages. We show that in a standard gift-exchange principals highly underestimate agents' reciprocity and, thereby, offer...
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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services
Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian - 2021
We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of a governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompasses both bureaucratic delegation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316659
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2008
ability and in public service motivation. We find that, if demand for public sector output is not too high, the equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264466
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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market
Fest, Sebastian - 2019
In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891569
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Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217557
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Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2021
I study how motivation shapes own and peers’ educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation …
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Outside Options and Worker Motivation
Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023
We study the relationship between outside options and workers’ motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …
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Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Vuri, Daniela - 2008
This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that this difference is particularly large when workers...
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Why so unhappy? : The effects of unionisation on job satisfaction
Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...
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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed effects estimates indicate an insignificant relationship....
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