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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010

We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a...

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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness : Theory and an Application to Germany

Peichl, Andreas - 2010

addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the …

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A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy : Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Burks, Stephen V. - 2011

of incentives between serving the client and earning commissions, a dilemma about fiduciary responsibility to a client …

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2021

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...

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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …

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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment : An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …

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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …

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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment : An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …

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Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery : Filling Data Gaps Across Time and Space

Lehnert, Patrick; Niederberger, Michael; … - 2022

Germany, where East German data on economic activity are unavailable for detailed regional levels and historical time series …

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