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Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies: An examination of fast tracks and functional area
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Poinas, … - 2012
This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved individual heterogeneity and allows for both an endogenous...
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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The Italian job: match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - 2008
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...
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An economic analysis of identity and career choice
Knoth Humlum, Maria; Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Skyt … - 2007
Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there are highly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are unlikely to be effective in influencing career choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and...
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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment
Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008
experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their results. We …
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Cheating in the workplace: An experimental study of the impact of bonuses and productivity
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with …
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Integrating personality psychology into economics
Heckman, James J. - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
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The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2015
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts - independently of whether...
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The Peter Principle: an experiment
Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2007
experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …
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Aging and attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: An artefactual field experiment in a Swiss bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
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