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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - 2021
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 highquality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...
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Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity - A Field Experiment
Heinz, Matthias - 2018
We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good
Barrett, Scott - 2015
In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
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More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth
Felfe, Christina - 2018
how to bridge such divides. We study the effects of a major citizenship reform in Germany—the introduction of birthright …
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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panal Data Analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca - 2012
manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypothesis in …
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Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns : Theory and Evidence
Tincani, Michela - 2017
Mathematics and Spanish test scores. To be able to test the theory, I develop a novel nonlinear difference-in-differences model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961951
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An Analysis of Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior Using a Model of Privately Provided Public Goods
Ibuka, Yoko - 2018
Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of others. We provide three different models of private provision of a public good, such as a joint production model and a conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive...
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Private Provision of Public Goods and Information Diffusion in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2021
We describe a dynamic model of costly information sharing, where private information affecting collective-value actions is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals make voluntary contributions towards the provision of a pure public good, and information transmission about quality of...
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Technological Determinants of the Group-Size Paradox
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2021
The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...
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