This research note uses two German data sets the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are: (1) more risk averse individuals sort into...

In dieser Arbeit werden Personalstammdaten eines großen Unternehmens des verarbeitenden Gewerbes genutzt, in der die Belegschaft in Arbeiter, technische und kaufmännische Angestellte untergliedert ist. Im Sinne von Doeringer und Piore (1971) kann gezeigt werden, dass der interne Arbeitsmarkt...

Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-basedincentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affectproductivity by changing both workers’ effort and team composition. We present evidencefrom a field experiment...