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The economic preferences of cooperative managers
Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019
conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers' behavioural profile in … noninvestor-owned firms. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing a comprehensive behavioural characterization of managers …, and trust from 196 Uruguayan managers (half of them employed in worker cooperatives) and 92 first-year undergraduate …
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Workers made idle by company strikes and the "British disease"
Hart, Robert A. - 2009
The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers themselves. This paper considers another important group of affected workers - those individuals incidentally made idle as a result of the strike action of others. Using a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858874
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Performance related pay and firm productivity : new evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Italy
Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - 2012
This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the introduction of collective performance related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536587
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Spillover effects of energy transition metals in Chile
Agnese, Pablo; Rios, Francisco - 2023
This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...
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Genetic, cultural and geographical distances
Giuliano, Paola (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
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Job assignments under moral hazard : the Peter Principle revisited
Koch, Alexander K. (contributor);  … - 2007
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often place employees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second, demotions are extremely rare. Why do organizations not correct 'wrong' promotion decision? This paper...
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The measurement of racial discrimination in pay between job categories : theory and test
Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor);  … - 2008
The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A...
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The Peter Principle : an experiment
Dickinson, David L. (contributor);  … - 2007
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of...
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Physicians' multitasking and incentives: empirical evidence from a natural experiment
Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - 2007
We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optional mixed compensation system, combining a fixed per diem with a discounted (relative to the traditional fee-for-service system)...
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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? : A laboratory experiment
Schwieren, Christiane (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals' performance, but also their tendency to cheat. Recent doping scandals in sports as well as forgery and plagiarism scandals in academia have been partially explained by "competitive...
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