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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation … divergence. …
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The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and...
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Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for …
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In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …
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This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is someone who consistently causes their team to produce more...
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Teamwork has become widely embraced in recent decades; however, its adoption carries significant implications that … require thorough understanding. In this paper, we study the relationship between teamwork and selection intensity. The use of … complementary skills. However, teamwork may also substitute intensive selection if team members engage in mutual monitoring and peer …
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It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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