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Group contests with complementarities in efforts

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010

Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...

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Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Schneider, Frédéric - 2019

We study whether employment history provides information about a worker's "work attitude," i.e., the tendency to act cooperatively and reliably in the workplace. We conjecture that, holding all else equal, frequent job changes can indicate poor work attitude and that this information is...

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Students' grit and their post-compulsory educational choices and trajectories: evidence from Switzerland

Albiez, Janine; Strazzeri, Maurizio; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

We examine the association between the personality trait grit and post-compulsory educational choices and trajectories …-reported grit in the last year of compulsory school, we find that an increase in students' grit is associated with a higher … into math-intensive training occupations. Similarly, students in general education with more grit select themselves more …

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Labour taxation and foreign direct investment

Egger, Peter (contributor); Radulescu, Doina (contributor) - 2008

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Contractual and organizational structure with reciprocal agents

Englmaier, Florian (contributor); … - 2008

Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...

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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management

Delfgaauw, Josse (contributor); … - 2008

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...

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Reference points and effort provision

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009

A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...

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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

Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...

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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009

This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...

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Effort maximization in asymmetric n-Person contest games

Franke, Jörg; Kanzow, Christian; Leininger, Wolfgang; … - 2009

This paper provides existence and characterization of the optimal contest success function under the condition that the objective of the contest designer is total effort maximization among n heterogeneous players. Heterogeneity of players makes active participation of a player in equilibrium...

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