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Incentives and cooperation in firms: Field evidence
Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the … intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278772
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Run for fun: Intrinsic motivation and physical performance
Filippin, Antonio; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282363
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Lying and team incentives
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280688
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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261524
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German Works Councils in the Production Process
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003
In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261548
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
representative sample of the German population. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent … economic importance of the jack-of-all-trades theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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Unwilling or Unable? : Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females? willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261801
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004
provisions on worker flows. In contrast to the predictions of the theory, our results indicate that there are no statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261862
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What a Difference a Y Makes : Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261884