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What is an award worth? : an econometric assessment of the impact of awards on employee performance
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
motivators that derive their value from such social concerns. Panel data from the call center of a large international bank allow …
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Incentive pay and bank risk-taking : evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss banks
Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - 2014
We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail banking …
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Do professional norms in the banking industry favor risk-taking?
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Maréchal, Michel André - 2017
saliency of their professional identity and subsequently measure their risk aversion in a real stakes investment task. If bank … professional norms generally increase bank employees' willingness to take risks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624184
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How banks respond to negative interest rates : evidence from the Swiss exemption threshold
Basten, Christoph; Mariathasan, Mike - 2018
Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …
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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...
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Explaining the decline in the US labor share : taxation and automation
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2022
This study provides evidence for the US that the secular decline in the labor share is not only explained by technical change or globalization, but also by the dynamics of factor taxation, automation capital (robots), and population growth. First, we empirically find indications of...
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Robot imports and firm-level outcomes
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Fadinger, Harald - 2020
We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes. Compared to other firms operating in the same 5-digit sector, robot importers are larger, more productive, and employ a higher share of managers and engineers. Over time, robot...
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Labor supply and automation innovation
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gäßler, Fabian - 2020
While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by exploiting an...
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Institutions, holdup and automation
Presidente, Giorgio - 2019
This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation. The relationship between institutions and robots is...
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Automation, economic growth, and the labor share - a comment on Prettner (2019)
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2019 - This Version: June 24, 2019
Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes...
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