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Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Gong, Erick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well … to organizations, creating either mission matches or mismatches. We overlay performance incentives to test whether they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695875
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Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Gong, Erick - 2013
Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the mission of the organization. Well … to organizations, creating either mission matches or mismatches. We overlay performance incentives to test whether they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329179
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Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
Burbano, Vanessa; Padilla, Nicolas; Meier, Stephan - 2020
: meaning at work; and in particular, meaning at work induced by job mission. We provide empirical evidence of the importance of … show show that preferences for meaning at work, particularly meaning induced by job mission, explain gender differences in … segregation and of the consequences of corporate mission and purpose. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207734
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The rise and fall of the Normalarbeitsverhältnis in Germany
Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009
The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the beginning of the 19th century onwards. It was from this point in time that wage labour slowly came into being and later on developed more broadly. At first, state regulations were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269080
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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland
Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010
The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269879
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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269936
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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil
Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269117
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269549
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Growth, history, or institutions? What explains state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269665
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Income, democracy, and critical junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....
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