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Dodging a Draft: Gary Becker's Lost Paper on Conscription
Gibbs, Michael; Perri, Tim - 2021
Gary Becker wrote what may be the first economic analysis of conscription. Less than a decade later, economists played … military draft. Becker had connections to many of those economists who studied the economics of conscription, and his paper … foreshadowed many of the ideas in that literature. Despite this, none cited his paper on conscription. We discuss this history and …
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Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover: A Firm-Level Perspective
Frederiksen, Anders - 2015
In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...
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Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krüger, Miriam; … - 2015
We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...
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Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions
Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015
The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk...
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Work-Life Balance Practices, Performance-Related Pay, and Gender Equality in the Workplace: Evidence from Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2015
This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance...
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The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W. Stanley; Wei, Xiangdong - 2013
This field experiment examines output quantity and quality for workers in a data input business. We observe two sets of workers that differ in monitoring intensity as they move from time to piece rates. The application of piece rates increases quantity, and we find that the resultant quality can...
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Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility
Fuchs, William - 2013
We provide a new rationale for the use of discretionary bonuses. In a setting with unknown match qualities between a worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful in order to make the feedback from the firm to the workers credible. This way workers in good...
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Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
Janssen, Simon; Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; … - 2014
We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...
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Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - 2014
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a simple rationale for this 'crowding out' phenomenon, using standard economic arguments. The...
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