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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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Creative Disruption : Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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Creative Unemployment
Roed, Knut - 2010
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...
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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert - 2011
relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055234
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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the Us and UK Using Microdata
Kemeny, Tom - 2018
Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...
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Social Comparison in the Workplace : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Cohn, Alain - 2011
received the same performance – independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … performance. When only one team member's wage was cut, the performance decrease for the workers who received the cut was more than … other team member's wage level. In contrast, workers whose wage was not cut but who witnessed their team member's pay being …
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Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
Klor, Esteban F. - 2011
this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …
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The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans : Evidence from Korean Panel Data
Kato, Takao - 2010
(SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we assemble important new panel data by merging data from a survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139059
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Teams Make You Smarter : Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
Maciejovsky, Boris - 2010
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision … tasks, implying that team experiences enhance individual problem-solving skills …
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