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Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises : An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
Arando, Saioa - 2011
difference models we find that hypermarket stores with cooperative ownership grow sales significantly faster than GESPA stores … cooperatives. Finally, while cooperative members are better paid than their peers in comparable firms, individual-level data also …
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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance
Pencavel, John H. - 2012
A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective …
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Do Women Prefer a Co-Operative Work Environment?
Kuhn, Peter - 2011
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women...
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The Labor Supply of Self-Employed Workers : The Choice of Working Hours in Worker Co-Ops
Pencavel, John H. - 2014
Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is...
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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives : Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Rebitzer, James B. - 2010
agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139879
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Motivational Goal Bracketing
Koch, Alexander K. - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding Out of Non-Monetary Motives
Huffman, David - 2018
, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907833
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Tax Morale
Luttmer, Erzo F. P. - 2014
Standard economic models of tax compliance have focused on enforcement-driven compliance. Notably, tax administrators also tend to place a great deal of emphasis on the importance of improving "tax morale" by encouraging voluntary compliance, creating a culture of compliance, and changing social...
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Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-Rational Goals
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2021
We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a setting with non-rational goals. Goals motivate because they serve as reference points that make...
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Exploitation Aversion : When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2013
rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …
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