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Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams
Kräkel, Matthias - 1999
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage (e.g. harming other competitors). In addition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262295
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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279270
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Testing a forgotten aspect of Akerlof's gift exchange hypothesis: Relational contracts with individual and uniform wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282462
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Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage (e.g. harming other competitors). In addition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703300
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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Andrade, Gustavo Henrique de; Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations. We conducted a field experiment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in order to … enforcement visit from a municipal inspector; while the fourth group was assigned to have a neighboring firm receive an … enforcement visit to see if enforcement has spillovers. We find zero or negative impacts of information and free cost treatments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960119
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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
de Andrade, Gustavo Henrique; Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, … - 2013
, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations. We conducted a field experiment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in order to … enforcement visit from a municipal inspector; while the fourth group was assigned to have a neighboring firm receive an … enforcement visit to see if enforcement has spillovers. We find zero or negative impacts of information and free cost treatments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319601
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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We find that females can enjoy higher wages in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822167
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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822243
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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822289
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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822293