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Job satisfaction and co-worker wages: status or signal?
Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - 2007
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277253
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Contests, NGOs and decentralizing aid
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2005
International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play a potentially important role for nongovernmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267360
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Model of NGO regulation with an application to Uganda
Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2011
these configurations. We apply our analysis to a large sample of NGOs from Uganda, and find regulation to be beneficial in …We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of … some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282138
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Getting more work for nothing? Symbolic awards and worker performance
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne - 2010
We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a database project. Students in the award treatment were offered a congratulatory card from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269941
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Who benefits from benefits? Empirical research on tangible incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282164
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Can workers' expectations account for the persistence of discrimination?
Filippin, Antonio - 2009
The paper explains how workers' expectations of being discriminated against can be self-confirming, accounting for the persistence of unequal outcomes in the labour market even beyond the causes that originally generated them. The theoretical framework used is a two-stage game of incomplete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269453
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Competition, cooperation, and corporate culture
Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2007
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...
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Workplace performance, worker commitment and loyalty
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; McNabb, Robert; Taylor, Karl - 2011
suggest that employers may be able to exert some influence over the commitment and loyalty of its workforce, which, in turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285519
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Socially Useless Jobs
Dur, Robert; van Lent, Max - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984487
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Reference dependent preferences and the impact of wage increases on job satisfaction: theory and evidence
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267564