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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2015
We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
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Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2021
discouraged entrepreneurship and family ownership of businesses in favor of institutional ownership. Credit market regulations …, the national pension system, employment security laws and centralized wage setting in Sweden reinforced the distortionary … neutral set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution is sharply tilted away from lower wage industries …
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Entrepreneurship and the City
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …
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The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes
Hastings, Justine S. - 2012
Using data on student outcomes and school choice lotteries from a low-income urban school district, we examine how school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school and peer inputs. First we use unique daily data on...
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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2012
We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...
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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...
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Achievement Effects of Individual Performance Incentives in a Teacher Merit Pay Tournament
O’Rourke, Margaret - 2015
This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay tournament on student achievement. We first build an illustrative model in which teachers use proximity to an award threshold to update their information about their own ability,...
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups Versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
concerned with the supply of human capital to entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964403
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777611
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Pay, Reference Points, and Police Performance
Mas, Alexandre - 2006
Several theories suggest that pay raises below a reference point will reduce job performance. Final offer arbitration for police unions provides a unique opportunity to examine these theories, as the police officers either receive their requested wage or receive a lower one. In the months after...
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