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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work
Fuchs, Victor R.; Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2021
This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750025
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Capital Structure and a Firm's Workforce
Matsa, David A. - 2018
firm's workforce on its capital structure. For instance, high leverage often makes managing labor more difficult by … undermining employees' job security and increasing the need for costly workforce reductions. But firms can also use leverage to … needs and management of their workforce when making financing decisions …
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Inequality at Work : The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction
Card, David - 2010
We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to information on peers' wages to provide new evidence on the effects of relative pay on individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of employees of the University of California (UC)...
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Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace : An Experiment
Cadena, Ximena - 2014
In this paper we test whether procrastination and planning problems affect the performance, compensation and work satisfaction among employees. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment with a bank in Colombia to change the frequency and intensity with which employees received reminders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068288
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Lock-Downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel - 2020
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
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Sorting in the Labor Market : Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?
Krueger, Alan B. - 2010
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...
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Educational Mismatch Among Ph.D.S : Determinants and Consequences
Bender, Keith A. - 2010
Using the Survey of Doctoral Recipients, the magnitude and consequences of job mismatch are estimated for Ph.D.s in science. Approximately one-sixth of academics and nearly one-half of nonacademics report some degree of mismatch. The influence of job mismatch is estimated for three job outcomes:...
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How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper takes a different tack in addressing one of the fundamental questions in economics: what are the factors that determine the distribution of jobs and wages? In Adam Smith%u2019s classic formulation, and in much of the subsequent literature, wage levels have been used to estimate the...
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Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...
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