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Money for something : the links between research funding and innovation

Glennon, Britta; Lane, Julia; Sodhi, Ridhima - 2018

Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation - so that they spend … innovation and productivity growth. In this paper we use new data to examine how the main organizational structure used to train …

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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009

To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...

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Age-dependent employment protection

Chéron, Arnaud (contributor); … - 2008

This paper examines the age-related design of firing taxes by extending the theory of job creation and job destruction to account for a finite working life-time. We first argue that the potential employment gains related to employment protection are high for older workers, but higher firing...

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The impact of wealth on job exit rates of elderly workers

Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor) - 2006

In the literature theoretical models have appeared that predict a positive impact of the level of individual wealth on the job exit probability. Empirically this prediction is most likely to be relevant for elderly workers who have been able to accumulate wealth throughout their working life and...

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Optimal unemployment insurance for older workers

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Ménard, … - 2009

This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more digressive replacement ratio. However, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for...

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Unions, firing costs and unemployment

Modesto, Leonor (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Endogenous demographic change, retirement and social security

Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Fioroni, Tamara - 2019

In this paper, we analyse the effects of demographic change on a PAYG pension system, financed with a defined contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of...

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Worker self-selection and the profits from cooperation

Kosfeld, Michael (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort … weakly lower wages. -- Team work ; self-selection …

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Mutual monitoring in teams : theory and experimental evidence on the importance of reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2006

requires reasonably accurate public information concerning the behavior of each player. We provide a model of team production … willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group … reciprocity in teams. -- team production ; public good ; monitoring ; punishment ; experiment …

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Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri - 2009

damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate …

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