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Spillovers of prosocial motivation : evidence from an intervention study on blood donors
Bruhin, Adrian; Götte, Lorenz; Haenni, Simon; Jiang, … - 2014
Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among … serving us as an instrument for identifying motivational spillovers. About 40% of a donor's motivation spills over to the …
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Paying for what kind of performance? : performance pay and multitasking in mission-oriented jobs
Jones, Daniel B.; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating compensation and mission, to answer these questions....
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On the production of victory : empirical determinants of battlefield success in modern war
Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002
leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411277
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What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance?
Stokes, Lucy; Bryson, Alex; Wilkinson, David - 2019
the leadership roles of deputy and assistant heads and classroom-based teachers with additional leadership … typically employ more staff in leadership roles than community schools. Increases in the number of staff in leadership roles … distributing leadership within schools may only be realised when leaders have sufficient autonomy. …
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Substitution between managers and subordinates : evidence from British football
Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - 2009
indicated, in our data, by teams with greater payrolls. -- Productivity ; leadership …
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High performance workplace practices and job satisfaction : evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor) - 2004
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Unemployment and right-wing extremist crime
Falk, Armin (contributor); Zweimüller, Josef (contributor) - 2005
Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we empirically test this hypothesis. We use a previously not used data set which includes all...
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607354
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Labor demand shocks at birth and cognitive achievement during childhood
Regmi, Krishna; Henderson, Daniel J. - 2019
As epidemiological studies have shown that conditions during gestation and early childhood affect adult health outcomes, we examine the effect of local labor market conditions in the year of birth on cognitive development in childhood. To address the endogeneity of labor market conditions, we...
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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment
Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017
We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...
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