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The Interplay between Organizational Structure, Culture and Employees’ Socio-Emotional Skills within Their Social Capital
Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Altmann, Jörn; Heshmati, … - 2022
social tolerance of employees (i.e., an example of socio-emotional skills within a workplace) on their happiness. In our … happiness by itself, it has been observed to show a significant impact on the level of trust among employees. Trust among … colleagues also in its own turn significantly impacts the employees’ level of happiness. This finding can be applied in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351855
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What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207793
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Robots, Meaning, and Self-Determination
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke; Nikolaev, Boris - 2023
This paper is the first to examine the impact of robotization on work meaningfulness and autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are essential to motivation and well-being at work. Drawing on surveys from workers and industry-specific robotization data across 14 industries in 20 European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469348
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Work Meaningfulness and Effort
Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024
Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061937
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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262705
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The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use: The Mediating Role of Household Composition
Bijwaard, Govert; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2018
In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931694
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Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health
Brewer, Mike; Dang, Thang; Tominey, Emma - 2022
The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to sustainable employment. Exploiting a staggered roll-out, we estimate the differential effect of entering unemployment under UC versus the former system on mental health. Groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351717
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The Economics of First-Contract Mediation
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2013
This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319470
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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822338
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The Economics of First-Contract Mediation
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685860