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Use and abuse of authority: A behavioral foundation of the employment relation
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
preferences in combination with reputation opportunities keep principals from abusing their power, leading to the widespread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291316
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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004
Holmström?s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision makers?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262147
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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2004
this task. We show, that those announced beliefs lead to a self fulfilling prophecy as the reputation of the responsible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262163
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Screening, competition, and job design: economic origins of good jobs
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These high-performance work systems are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show experimentally...
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Mixed Up? : That's Good for Motivation
Koch, Alexander K.; Peyrache, Eloïc - 2004
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex ante uncertainty, if the unobservable actions that an agent takes influence his future productivity. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276186
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Transparency and Reciprocal Behavior in Employment Relations
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2003
The impact of transparency on the extent of reciprocal behavior is investigated in a simple repeated gift exchange experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals? payoffs are determined by a random component. It is...
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How unjust! An experimental investigation of supervisors' evaluation errors and agents' incentives
Marchegiani, Lucia; Reggiani, Tommaso; Rizzolli, Matteo - 2011
In our simple model the supervisor: i) cannot observe the agent's effort; ii) aims at inducing the agent to exert high effort; but iii) can only offer rewards based on performance. Since performance is only stochastically related to effort, evaluation errors may occur. In particular, deserving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282338
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Earnings tenure profiles: tests of agency and human capital theories using individual performance data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2007
policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268237
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Work and Television
Corneo, Giacomo - 2001
Evidence from a sample of countries show that people roughly spend as much time watching television as earning their … living. Moreover, television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on … this model the equilibria can be inversely Pareto-ranked by their amount of television viewing. Arguments are offered to …
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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - 2014
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...
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