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How Do Unemployed Workers Behave Prior to Retirement? A Multi-State Multiple-Spell Approach

Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa - 2017

We examine the behaviour of unemployed older workers up to five years prior to the point at which they can transition out of unemployment because they become eligible to receive pension benefits. We use a unique dataset covering the unemployment histories (longitudinal data) of individuals born...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers

Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2010

This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more digressive replacement ratio. However, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for...

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Pension Incentives and the Retirement Decisions of Couples

Atalay, Kadir - 2016

Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's...

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Lying and Team Incentives

Conrads, Julian - 2011

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives

Dur, Robert - 2009

damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate …

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Learning Through Coworker Referrals

Glitz, Albrecht - 2019

In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...

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Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives

Danilov, Anasatsia - 2019

We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model … we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite … intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. This problem is mitigated …

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran - 2014

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

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Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity

Bayo Moriones, José Alberto - 2015

This study addresses the factors that determine the intensity of pay for performance schemes. The results indicate that the use of individual and group incentives boost intensity, whereas plant or firm pay for performance do not seem to affect the variable of interest. In addition, the adoption...

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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

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