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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011
behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to … measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125139
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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives : Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Rebitzer, James B. - 2010
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139879
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Employee Identification and Wages : On the Economics of "Affective Commitment"
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2020
We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824439
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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
Brown, Sarah - 2014
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051439
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Coming to Work While Sick : An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Hirsch, Boris - 2015
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023426
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The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One
Cristini, Annalisa - 2012
In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one hand, and workers moving from insecure to secure jobs, on the other hand. Using a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110202
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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay : A Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2013
We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074203
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Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance : A Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2018
plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930959
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On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm : Evidence from Field Experiments
Shearer, Bruce - 2009
use the estimated structural parameters to generalize beyond the experiment, simulating how workers would react to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157254
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Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives : Lessons from a Field Experiment Among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women
Goldfarb, Yael - 2020
a field experiment. Factor Analysis was then employed to sort out the motives behind their occupational choices, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843150