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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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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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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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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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.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
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In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
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into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …
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Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
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We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life satisfaction that are available in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of...
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