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Gift exchange in the workplace : money or attention?
Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008
convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
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Do managers with limited liability take more risky decisions? : an information acquisition model
Malcomson, James M. - 2010
Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when … return. Further results on the form of contracts are also derived. -- managers ; risky decisions ; limited liability …
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Income mobility of owners of small businesses when boundaries between occupations are vague
Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2009
Ownership of small businesses can facilitate upward mobility through the income hierarchy and help individuals maintain a place at the higher end of the income distribution hierarchy. This paper compares the positional stability of owners of small businesses with that of wage earners, arguing...
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Service offshoring and white-collar employment
Crinò, Rosario (contributor) - 2007
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Being independent is a great thing : subjective evaluations of self-employment and hierarchy
Frey, Bruno S.; Benz, Matthias - 2003
One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
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History dependence, cohort attachment, and job referrals in networks of close relationships
Chen-Zion, Ayal; Rauch, James E. - 2019
We model network formation in a firm. Agents learn about the quality of their working relationships with each other. Their good relationships become their networks. Accumulating relationships becomes increasingly costly, however. Over time agents become less open to forming relationships with...
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Do employee spinoffs learn markets from their parents? : evidence from international trade
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Rauch, James E. - 2018
firms well positioned to learn those markets at arm’s length. We find that, controlling for the greater overlap of spinoffs …
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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
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The Johansson-Samuelson theorem in general equilibrium : a rebuttal
Menoncin, Francesco (contributor);  … - 2008
The well-known Johansson-Samuelson Theorem proves that, in partial equilibrium, comprehensive income taxation with a uniform tax rate is neutral in terms of investment decisions, if fiscal depreciation allowances coincide with economic depreciation. In this article we show that this result does...
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Wage posting as a positive selection device : theory and empirical evidence
Gartner, Hermann; Holzner, Christian - 2015
We use the German Job Vacancy Survey to investigate whether firms are able to attract more suitable applicants by offering bargain wages rather than posting fixed wages. Contrary to the theoretical predictions provided by the literature, we find that the offer to bargain over pay decreases the...
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