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Gender differences in the distribution of total work-time of Latin-American families : the importance of social norms

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2015

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...

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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value

Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...

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Multi-rater performance evaluations and incentives

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2024

We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and running a laboratory experiment. The model predicts that multi-rater evaluations are more precise than single-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about...

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Universities as stakeholders in their students' careers : on the benefits of graduate taxes to finance higher education

McKenzie, Tom; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax … ; tuition fees ; risk aversion ; incentives …

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Differentiation and performance : an empirical investigation on the incentive effects of bonus plans

Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

in a simple model that the perceived degree of past differentiation affects future incentives. We then study the impact … ; incentives …

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On the notion of responsibility in organizations

Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2004

subordinate then is affected by the outcome of the task and he therefore has strong incentives to contribute to its success. There …

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Incentives, decision frames, and motivation crowding out : an experimental investigation

Irlenbusch, Bernd (contributor); Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2005

. -- incentives ; crowding-out ; reciprocity ; reputation ; experiment …

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Management incentives, signaling effects and the costs of vertical integration

Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Information provision, incentives, and attention: a field experiment on facilitating and influencing managers' decisions

Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021

behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field …

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Market work and motherhood decisions in contexts

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); Pasqua, Silvia (contributor) - 2008

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of … women at lower educational levels. -- Employment ; fertility ; childcare ; parental leave …

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