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Wages, Employer Costs, and Employee Performance in the Firm
Holzer, Harry J. - 1989
its hiring costs and the characteristics and performance of its employees. These measures include the previous experience … and current tenure of its employees; subjective productivity scores for these employees; job vacancy rates; perceived ease … through improved productivity and lower hiring and turnover costs among their employees …
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Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016
We design a model-based field experiment to estimate the nature and magnitude of workers' social preferences towards their employers. We hire 446 workers for a one-time task. Within worker, we vary (i) piece rates; (ii) whether the work has payoffs only for the worker, or also for the employer;...
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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...
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Managers and Productivity in Retail
Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices that matter. We shed light on this question by...
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Working Remotely and the Supply-side Impact of Covid-19
Papanikolaou, Dimitris - 2020
We analyze the supply-side disruptions associated with Covid-19 across firms and workers. To do so, we exploit differences in the ability of workers across industries to work remotely using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We find that sectors in which a higher fraction of the...
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Kinks as Goals : Accelerating Commissions and the Performance of Sales Teams
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Yu, Lizi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the performance of small retail sales teams facing an incentive scheme that includes both a lump sum bonus and multiple accelerators (kinks where the piece rate jumps upward). Consistent with standard labor supply models, we find that the presence of an attainable bonus or kink on a...
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The Effect of Shift Structure on Performance : The Role of Fatigue for Paramedics
Brachet, Tanguy - 2010
The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics'...
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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within teams in the degree of...
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Present-Bias, Procrastination and Deadlines in a Field Experiment
Bisin, Alberto - 2014
We study procrastination in the context of a field experiment involving students who must exert costly effort to complete certain tasks by a fixed deadline. Descriptively, we document a strong demand for commitment, in the form of self-imposed deadlines, which appear to be associated with...
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Feeling the Heat : Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
Heal, Geoffrey - 2013
Does temperature affect economic performance? Has temperature always affected social welfare through its impact on physical and cognitive function? While many economic studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e.g. agriculture, conflict, sea-level rise), few address...
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