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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Dostie, Benoit - 2009
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...
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Leader Identity and Coordination
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010
brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and … service motivation. We find that, if demand for public sector output is not too high, the equilibrium return to managerial … ability is always higher in the private sector. As a result, relatively many of the more able managers self-select into the …
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Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
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Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
Félix, Sónia - 2015
This study is an empirical assessment of the impact of the drug decriminalization policy followed by Portugal in July, 2001. We investigate especially the impact of the policy change on the price of illicit drugs. The analysis is performed using a difference-in-differences approach and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027751
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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan
Groh, Matthew - 2014
Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role of search and matching frictions by providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045842
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Psychological Momentum and Gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2016
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...
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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