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Worker commitment and establishment performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021
Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment performance. An index of worker commitment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500545
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Former foreign affiliates : cast out and outperformed?
Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Poelhekke, Steven - 2014
The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461272
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Theories of fairness and reciprocity : evidence and economic applications
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2000
Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397676
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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001
, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398913
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Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees : evidence for Germany
Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2013
We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or … decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752996
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Low altruism, austerity, and aversion to default : are countries converging to the natural debt limit?
Bohn, Henning - 2013
reflecting low altruism - a discount rate on children's utility greater than the world interest rate - and I examine the … spending on debt and retiree entitlements. In the model, altruism towards children determines bequests, government debt, and … the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753002
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On self-interest and greed
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2014
First the assumption of self-interest as applied in Economics is presented. Here we also discuss areas in which (many) people behave less self- but more other-regarding than traditional economic models assume. Then, greedy behaviour is considered as existing in the political and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375177
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten dids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370317
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From one to many central plans : drug advertising inspections and intra-national protectionism in China
Eberhardt, Markus; Wang, Zheng; Yu, Zhihong - 2014
This paper provides the first micro-level evidence for the existence and patterns of intra-national protectionism in China. We demonstrate that drug advertising inspections are used by provincial governments to discriminate against firms from outside the province and document how the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252132
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
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