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Lying and team incentives
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
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Innovation and the determinants of firm survival
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - 2006
-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …
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Taxes and benefits: two distinct options to cheat on the state?
Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2008
While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud, has gained relatively modest attention in the economic literature. This paper seeks to fill this gap. We explore differences between benefit fraud and tax evasion due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268927
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From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Poggi, Ambra; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
Social bonds and supportive relationships (social support) are widely recognised as being indispensable to healthy psychological functioning and wellbeing. Applying a multilevel approach to the 2001-2016 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) data, we assess the impact of...
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Decent Wage Floors in Europe: Does the Minimum Wage Directive Get It Right?
Haapanala, Henri; Marx, Ive; Parolin, Zachary - 2022
The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages represents a watershed initiative adding substance to the EU's social dimension. It contains two ambitious objectives: establishing the minimum level of statutory minimum wages (SMWs) at 60% of the gross median wage, and increasing collective bargaining...
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Determinants of Productivity Gap in the European Union: A Multilevel Perspective
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Douarin, Elodie; Korosteleva, Julia; … - 2019
The paper explores the determinants of productivity gap within the European Union in four industrial manufacturing sectors (computers, chemicals, basic metals and food) of strong macroeconomic significance and varied 'Research and Development' (R&D) intensity. Our analysis reveals that some of...
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Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?
Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud, has gained relatively modest attention in the economic literature. This paper seeks to fill this gap. We explore differences between benefit fraud and tax evasion due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822596
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Understanding social interactions: Evidence from the classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278385
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Heterogeneous productivity in voluntary public good provision: An experimental analysis
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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