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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309152
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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348286
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Does the adoption of complex software impact employment composition and the skill content of occupations? : evidence from Chilean firms
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Viollaz, Mariana - 2017
on the use of routine tasks by middle-educated workers, this study focuses on a measure of complex software that is … instrumental variables estimates show that in the medium run, firms' adoption of complex software affects firms' employment … decisions and the skill content of occupations. The adoption of complex software reallocates employment from skilled workers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732039
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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635203
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Choice over time
Manzini, Paola (contributor); Mariotti, Marco (contributor) - 2007
In the last twenty years a growing body of experimental evidence has posed a challenge to the standard Exponential Discounting Model of choice over time. Attention has focused on some specific 'anomalies', notably preference reversal and declining discount rates, leading to the formulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637694
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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study
D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008
We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754910
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Efficiency gains from team-based coordination : large-scale experimental evidence
Feri, Francesco (contributor); Irlenbusch, Bernd (contributor) - 2008
The need for efficient coordination is ubiquitous in organizations and industries. The literature on the determinants of efficient coordination has focused on individual decision-making so far. In reality, however, teams often have to coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760231
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Am I missing something? : the effects of absence from class on student performance
Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor);  … - 2008
We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel properties of the data to control for unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760329
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Competition and the ratchet effect
Charness, Gary (contributor); Kuhn, Peter Joseph (contributor) - 2008
The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent's early actions to the agent's later disadvantage, in a context where binding multi-period contracts are not enforceable. In a simple, context-rich environment, we experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769812
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Promotions and incentives : the case of multi-stage elimination tournaments
Altmann, Steffen (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage elimination tournaments. The main treatment of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777950