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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …

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Spouses' access to financial services : estimating technological and managerial gaps in production

Malabayabas, Maria Luz L.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Mayorga, … - 2023

The study investigates the effect of the spouse's access to financial services (credit or savings) through membership in a self-help group on adopting technology, technical efficiency, and managerial gaps. To estimate the empirical model, we use farm-level data from rice farming households in...

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Rising work complexity but decreasing returns

Pikos, Anna Katharina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016

Work complexity can be an important factor contributing to the observed employment and wage developments. Using German data, we find that it increased substantially between 1986 and 2012. Work complexity was higher for high-educated employees in the past but differences have leveled out in 2012...

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Complex production processes and wage inequality

Pekkarinen, Tuomas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Complex job design and layers of hierarchy

Russo, Giovanni; Houten, Gijs van - 2021

The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An alternative way for organisations to motivate workers is through job design. In organisations...

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Skills, tasks, and complexity

Gersbach, Hans; Schmassmann, Samuel - 2019

We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too complex for many workers to perform. In such an environment, the relationship between wages of workers may significantly differ from their relative productivities. The labor market...

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