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Gift exchange in the workplace
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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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions
Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...
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Signaling and screening of workers' motivation
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2005 - Rev.
This paper develops a model in which workers are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work at a firm. We characterise optimal incentive schemes and examine how the firm can attract and select highly motivated workers to fill a vacancy when workers’ motivation is private information....
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Signaling and screening of workers' motivation
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2002
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?
Buser, Thomas - 2016
I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At...
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Do stepping-stone jobs exist? : Early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
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Public speaking aversion
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2020
Fear of public speaking is very common but we know little about its economic implications. We establish public speaking aversion as an economically relevant preference using three steps. First, we use a lab and a classroom experiment to show that preferences for speaking in public vary strongly...
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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017
Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...
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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? : evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures
Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020
We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...
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