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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have hidden costs, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden costs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283958
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - 2012
economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286869
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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884157
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262763
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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278617
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Interprovincial migration in China: the effects of investment and migrant networks
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2007
Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268157
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Parental education and wages: evidence from China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269354
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The regulation of migration in a transition economy: China's Hukou system
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2009
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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