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Can reputation discipline the gig economy? : experimental evidence from an online labor market
Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346559
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Moonlighting politicians : motivation matters!
Fedele, Alessandro; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2013
In this paper we study optimal choices of self-selection into politics and commitment once in office on the part of citizens with heterogeneous abilities and heterogeneous motivations. Politicians can moonlight, i.e., they can work in the market sector while appointed in parliament. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771614
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452045
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082
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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition
Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452091
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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value
Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
that choosing a manager who has a preference to spend resources for social causes can increase employee motivation. In turn …, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906086
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Motivated to succeed? : attitudes to education among native and immigrant pupils in England
Burgess, Simon M.; Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel - 2018
We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in these attitudes depending on background: immigrant students have substantially and significantly more positive attitudes to school than native children, a difference that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881599
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Immigrant examination behavior
Epstein, Gil S.; Sansani, Shahar - 2019
involves some level of uncertainty, so differences in examination behavior may be due to differences in motivation, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136906
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What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and … relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the first to explore the determinants of work meaningfulness. Specifically …, using three waves of the European Working Conditions Survey, we show that autonomy, competence, and relatedness explain …
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