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Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data
Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2014
We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352329
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329079
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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services: Micro-evidence from Italy
Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007
with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270950
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Can economic crises be good for your diet?
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - 2011
With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278592
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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace
Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019
This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180033
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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
Künn, Steffen; Seel, Christian; Zegners, Dainis - 2020
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270169
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Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning
Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2020
This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show how, in the presence of imperfect information over the shape of the production function, worker's effort choice changes over time as information is disclosed and processed. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497799
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Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2015
trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307480
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Heterogeneity of Skill Needs and Job Complexity: Evidence from the OECD PIAAC Survey
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni - 2015
We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of workers with well-matched skills to their job duties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401652
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Working Hours and Productivity
Collewet, Marion; Sauermann, Jan - 2017
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653450