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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2004
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A … are equilibria where either a single agent or no agent is responsible for a task but joint responsibility never arises …
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Reciprocity and incentive pay in the workplace
Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Roelfsema, Hein - 2010
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269520
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Multidimensional measurement of richness: Theory and an application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269775
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Decision-making by children
Lundberg, Shelly; Romich, Jennifer; Tsang, Kwok P. - 2007
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268524
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Gift exchange in the workplace: money or attention?
Dur, Robert - 2008
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269208
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262486
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267484
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The elite and the marginalised: an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2008
and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed … and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low caste … education while presence of capitalist elite, as reflected in greater degree of industrialisation enhances it, even in poorer …
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Elite dominance and under-investment in mass education: disparity in the social development of the Indian states, 1960-92
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2007
elite dominance that discriminates against the minority groups of people and systematically under-invests in mass education …. We experiment with various indirect economic and political measures of elite dominance. Results based on the Indian state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269246
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621