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Performance Pay, Group Selection andGroup Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may,first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose workeffort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for bothtasks as offered by...
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Legitimacy of Control
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
What is the motivational effect of imposing a minimum effort requirement? Agents may no longer exert voluntary effort but merely meet the requirement. Here, we examine how such hidden costs of control change when control is considered legitimate. We study a principal-agent model where control...
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Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Lünser, Gabriele K. - 2021
Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose work effort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for both tasks as offered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317147
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - 2021
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …
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The Rise in Absenteeism : Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time
Biorn, Erik - 2010
We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular … that the rise in absenteeism resulted from the inclusion of new cohorts ﾖ with weaker work-norms ﾖ into the workforce. We … also reject the idea that the rise in absenteeism resulted from more successful integration of workers with poor health; on …
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Competition, Group Identity, andSocial Networks in the Workplace:Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textilefirm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assignedteammates affect an individual worker’s behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme,and b) how such effects...
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Job Preferences as Revealed byEmployee Initiated Job Changes
Grund, Christian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since itis not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empiricalexamination offers a new approach based on representative German data. Employees whoquit their job and find...
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Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, andthe Choice of Human Resource Management Systems:Evidence from New Japanese Data
Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglectedlinkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organizationand bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices). In so doing, we alsoprovide fresh insights on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939754
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Earnings-Tenure Profiles:Tests of Agency and Human Capital TheoriesUsing Individual Performance Data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of workerperformance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several relateddimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles...
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The Adoption and Diffusion of OrganizationalInnovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and nonmanufacturingbusinesses in the United States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments inorganizational innovation...
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