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Unemployment Duration and Disability : Evidence from Portugal

Sciulli, Dario - 2009

In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on (re)employment probabilities. We find that disabled persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatric and...

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Substitution between Managers and Subordinates : Evidence from British Football

Bridgewater, Sue - 2009

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...

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Works Councils as Gatekeepers : Codetermination, Monitoring Practices, and Job Satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2023

This paper analyzes the role of works councils as gatekeepers safeguarding employee's interests in the adoption of monitoring practices. We first introduce a formal model predicting that (i) the introduction of monitoring practices leads to a stronger increase (or weaker decrease) in job...

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Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2021

Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly...

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021

Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...

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Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics

Garibaldi, Pietro - 2021

This paper proposes a matching model that distinguishes between job creation by existing firms and job creation by firm entrants. The paper argues that vacancy posting and job destruction on the extensive margin, i.e. from firms that enter and exit the labour market, represents a viable...

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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Tansel, Aysit - 2013

This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....

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Customer Discrimination and Ethnic Team Composition

Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik; Wolters, Leonie - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional … soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study ….6 percentage points. When examining the impacts of these changes in ethnic team composition on team productivity and economic …

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Everyone is a Winner : Promoting Cooperation Through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition

Reuben, Ernesto - 2011

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other...

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Treating Equals Unequally : Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015

The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...

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