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Why are small firms different? : managers views

Agell, Jonas - 2003

care about relative pay. I argue that these findings fit with behavioral stories of incentives and motivation, in …

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Agell, Jonas; Bennmarker, Helge - 2003

We use a random survey of Swedish human resource managers to study the reasons for wage rigidity. Our findings are as follows. First, during the exceptional recession of the 1990s only 1.1 percent of workers received a wage cut. Second, much wage rigidity can be traced to behavioral mechanisms...

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The economics of attention

Loewenstein, George; Wojtowicz, Zachary - 2023

Attention is a pivotal resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain numerous documented violations of classical...

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition

Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016

This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...

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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

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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Non-competitive wage-setting as a cause of unfriendly and inefficient leadership

Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2019 - This draft: September 2019

This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can - in addition to the use of monetary incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles...

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Perceived legitimacy and motivation effects of authority

Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024

Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in … organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived …

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Leaving money on the table

Alston, Mackenzie; Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga - 2025

actively refused payment, demonstrating low monetary motivation. We find both systematic and unobserved heterogeneity in the …

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