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Gift Exchange within a Firm:Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a treeplantingfirm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of treeplanters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable topast planting...

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Outside Options and Worker Motivation

Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023

We study the relationship between outside options and workers' motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …

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Workplace Job Satisfaction in Britain : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Haile, Getinet A. - 2009

This paper examines the determinants of job satisfaction in Britain using nationally representative linked employer-employee data (WERS2004) and alternative econometric techniques. It uses eight facets of job satisfaction for the purpose. As well as underscoring the importance of accounting for...

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Remittances and Chain Migration : Longitudinal Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2009

Most of the literature on remittances has focused on their implications for the welfare of family members in the country of origin and has disregarded the possibility for remittances to trigger chain migration. In this paper, we address this issue with the use of longitudinal data from Bosnia...

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Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender : An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace

Bellemare, Charles - 2009

). These results are consistent with models of conformism and self-motivation …

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The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers : An Empirical Analysis

Grund, Christian - 2018

We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of …,000 temporary agency workers, a subjective motivation appraisal is provided by the respective direct manager within the hiring … motivation of temporary agency workers. Women in temporary agency work demonstrate a higher degree of motivation than men …

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Motivated to Succeed? Attitudes to Education Among Native and Immigrant Pupils in England

Burgess, Simon M. - 2018

We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in these attitudes depending on background: immigrant students have substantially and significantly more positive attitudes to school than native children, a difference that...

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Using Goals to Motivate College Students : Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments

Clark, Damon - 2016

Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help time-inconsistent students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on the causal effects of goal setting for college students. We...

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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation : Before and after the Recession

Bryson, Alex - 2017

measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … are initially introduced, but can restore positive motivation when they invest intensively in HRM practices in a way that … employee motivation is modified somewhat by the recessionary transition, it remains rather robust and continues to have …

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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

endowment. We also propose a new method of detecting warm glow motivation based on the idea that in a random-lottery incentive … motivation does not …

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