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Inefficient group organization as optimal adaption to dominant environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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Mergers, investment decisions and internal organisation
Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2003
We analyse the effects of investment decisions and firms internal organisation on the efficiency and stability of horizontal mergers. In our framework economies of scale are endogenous and there might be internal conflict within merged firms. We show that often stable mergers do not lead to more...
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Disentangling the sources of pro-social behavior in the workplace : a field experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures the...
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Regional origins of employment volatility : evidence from German states
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor);  … - 2008
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Assessing the "Choosiness" of job seekers : an exploratory approach and evidence for Italy
Trivellato, Ugo; Giraldo, Anna - 2003
We use data about job search and work preferences, typically collected in a Labour Force Survey, in order to construct an indicator of .choosiness. of the supply of job-seekers. The method for obtaining the indicator, first at individual level and then at aggregate levels, is based on results...
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More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace
Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2022
Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and …
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Why is workplace sexual harassment underreported? : the value of outside options amid the threat of retaliation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Knepper, Matthew - 2021
Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that employers coerce victims into silence … economic incentives for victims of workplace sexual harassment to remain silent. We find the selectivity of sexual harassment …
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Willingness to pay for workplace safety
Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2021
This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety …
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Trust and workplace performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2019
's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially … dissonance between the assessments of the two sides as to the quality of industrial relations at the workplace. All trust … two more favored trust measures that any one type of formal workplace representation - either works councils or union …
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Smart-working : work flexibility without constraints
Angelici, Marta; Profeta, Paola - 2020
Does removing the constraints of time and place of work increase the utility of workers and firms? We design a randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that engages in flexible space and time job (which we call...
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