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Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?

Abel, Martin - 2019

I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism negatively impacts workers' job satisfaction and perception of the task's importance. When female...

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Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Butschek, Sebastian; González Amor, Roberto; … - 2019

We study the performance effects of payment schemes for freelancers offering services on an online platform in an RCT. Under the initial scheme, the firm pays workers a pure sales commission. The intervention reduces the commission rate and adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure...

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Do Workers Discriminate against Their Out-group Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy

Asad, Sher Afghan; Banerjee, Ritwik; Bhattacharya, Joydeep - 2020

We study possible worker-to-employer discrimination manifested via social preferences in an online labor market. Specifically, we ask, do workers exhibit positive social preferences for an out-race employer relative to an otherwise-identical, own-race one? We run a well-powered, model-based...

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Digital Entrepreneurship Research: A Concise Introduction

Naudé, Wim; Liebregts, Werner - 2020

for more research on digital entrepreneurship. As such, this paper provides an overview of the central research questions … currently being pursued in this field. These include questions such as: What is digital entrepreneurship? What is different in … models and entrepreneurship? How can digital entrepreneurship be supported and regulated? The paper identifies areas of …

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The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India

Abel, Martin; Buchman, Daniel - 2020

We hire 1,800 Indian gig economy workers for a real-effort transcription task and randomize the gender of the (fictitious) manager as well as the delivery of performance feedback. We find that negative feedback (i.e. criticism) leads to moderate deterioration in worker attitudes, but it...

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Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market

Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2021

We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) – a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...

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Live Longer, Work Longer: The Changing Nature of the Labour Market for Older Workers in OECD Countries

Martin, John P. - 2018

Population ageing poses stark dilemmas for labour markets, social protection systems and cultural norms. It will put strong downward pressure on labour supply, leading to falling real incomes and huge financial pressures on social protection systems unless there is an offsetting increase in...

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Driving the Gig Economy

Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Hou, Claire; … - 2024

Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry. Ridesharing dramatically increased the pace of entry of workers into the industry. New entrants were more...

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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...

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