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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior
Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012
emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287694
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Managerial incentives and favoritism in promotion decisions: Theory and field evidence
Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278492
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291414
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New evidence on the role of remittances on health care expenditures by Mexican households
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2009
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269518
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A labor market approach to the crisis of health care professionals in Africa
Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - 2011
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a distributional challenge, a performance challenge, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274635
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How unjust! An experimental investigation of supervisors' evaluation errors and agents' incentives
Marchegiani, Lucia; Reggiani, Tommaso; Rizzolli, Matteo - 2011
In our simple model the supervisor: i) cannot observe the agent's effort; ii) aims at inducing the agent to exert high effort; but iii) can only offer rewards based on performance. Since performance is only stochastically related to effort, evaluation errors may occur. In particular, deserving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282338
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The problem of the uninsured
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - 2012
The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290005
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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004
reasonably approximate real-life decision makers? behavior. Testing this theory with field data is difficult since typically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262147
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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a good allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268002
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Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?
Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023
.e., those with the highest scores of Machiavellianism are most likely to be managers. It also suggests that the direction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377264