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Guner, Nezih; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Ventura, Gustavo - 2015

We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...

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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2003

Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...

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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2004

, and increased communication with co-workers. Being involved in team work and job rotations as well as supporting human …

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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...

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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess

Künn, Steffen; Seel, Christian; Zegners, Dainis - 2020

During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...

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Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation

Belloc, Filippo; Burdin, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020

on the trade-off between communication and knowledge acquisition costs. Using a sample of more than 20000 private …. Moreover, ER is associated with enhanced internal communication via staff meetings. The analysis of managers' perceptions … information to top decision makers, possibly through skip-level reporting, and hence reducing communication costs. …

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Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning

Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2020

This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show how, in the presence of imperfect information over the shape of the production function, worker's effort choice changes over time as information is disclosed and processed. We...

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Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2021

The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals' effort in work and study. In a given set of individuals, we characterize each individual by his relative...

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An Optimal Split of School Classes

Stark, Oded - 2021

In many countries, schools have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by splitting up classes. While the purpose of dividing classes is clearly health-related, the process of doing so poses an interesting question: what is the best way to divide a class so as to maximize the incentive for students...

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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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