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The contribution of managers to organizational success : evidence from German soccer
Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2014
We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417962
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Bonus payments and reference point violations
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941775
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On the power of childhood impressions for skill formation : initial evidence and unsettled questions
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2013
Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and achievement over the life cycle. The novelty of the paper is that it bonds two different, hitherto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715728
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Early life adversity and children's competence development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715729
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Unemployment and right-wing extremist crime
Falk, Armin (contributor); Zweimüller, Josef (contributor) - 2005
Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we empirically test this hypothesis. We use a previously not used data set which includes all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002694257
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607354
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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment
Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017
managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may … change their career expectations (and hence effort) when managers behave unfairly towards co-workers. In order to rule out … by 12 percent. We show that this result is not driven by peer effects or altered beliefs about the job or the managers …
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Teamwork and intra-firm wage dispersion among blue-collar workers
Jirjahn, Uwe (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008
Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is associated with increased intra-firm wage inequality between skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers. We also show that moderating factors play an important role. While teamwork...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652704
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Capital deepening and wage differentials : Germany vs. US
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor);  … - 2006
Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304679
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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2009
This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824215