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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...

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Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers

Gibbs, Michael - 2005

Personnel records are used to examine compensation, recruitment, and retention of a group of very highly skilled … government?s primary plan and two intended to introduce greater flexibility in personnel management. …

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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution: Evidence from performance measures

Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010

Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...

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Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers

Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Personnel records are used to examine compensation, recruitment, and retention of a group of very highly skilled … government’s primary plan and two intended to introduce greater flexibility in personnel management. …

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Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures

Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Commitment to self-rewards

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009

) model of endogenous reference point formation to a self-regulation problem. Our results show why and when self …

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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives: Standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets

Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010

documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

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Why do individuals choose self-employment?

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …

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Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship

Lübbecke, Silvia; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2019

Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem – although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information...

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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public …

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