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Reference dependent preferences and the impact of wage increases on job satisfaction: theory and evidence

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2019

Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual...

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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

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Market share, market value and innovation in a panel of British manufacturing firms

Blundell, Richard W.; Griffith, Rachel; Van Reenen, John - In: The review of economic studies 66 (1999) 3, pp. 529-554

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Trade induced technical change? : the impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and poductivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - In: The review of economic studies 83 (2016) 1, pp. 87-117

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Managerial incentives and favoritism in promotion decisions: Theory and field evidence

Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for...

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Incentives and cooperation in firms: Field evidence

Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree of cooperation in firms using a unique and representative data set. Combining employee survey data with detailed firm level information on the relative importance of individual, team, and company performance for...

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Incentives and Cooperation in Firms: Field Evidence

Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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