We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company … company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control groups. Employees in treatment teams received rewards if their … increased the quality of ideas submitted. Further, rewards increased participation in the suggestion system, but decreased the …

company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main …

The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany … from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system …-industrial time the social organization of work occurred in various forms and that wage labor was rather a rare phenomenon in the …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … work found in the literature is based on situations in which workers have essentially no control (no choice) over the … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain … significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work … externality that is internalized in Europe through laws on the minimum amount of vacation time (and maximum hours of work …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The …

identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …

children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish … much, time on market work than wage-earning women. This raises doubts about whether women in Sweden chose self …