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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2008

We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from … effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000 industrial scientists and engineers (SESTAT 2003), we find that individuals …' motives have significant effects upon innovative effort and performance. These effects vary significantly, however, by the …

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Motivated Errors

Exley, Christine L. - 2019

In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...

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What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016

How much do different monetary and non-monetary motivators induce costly effort? Does the effectiveness line up with the expectations of researchers? We present the results of a large-scale real-effort experiment with 18 treatment arms. We compare the effect of three motivators: (i) standard...

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Achievement Effects of Individual Performance Incentives in a Teacher Merit Pay Tournament

Brehm, 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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The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes

Hastings, Justine S. - 2012

school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school …

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Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector : The Case of Bank Branches

Bartel, Ann P. - 2000

the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch … environment is likely to affect branch level performance. The branch interviews were instrumental in properly specifying a branch …-level performance equation. The econometric analysis showed that, controlling for the characteristics of the market in which the branch …

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Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis

Barry, John W.; Campello, Murillo; Graham, John R.; Ma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...

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Human Capital Reallocation Across Firms : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Shocks

Gilje, Erik P.; Taillard, Jerôme P.; Zeng, Linghang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study human capital reallocation following firm-specific idiosyncratic shocks. Theory offers diverging predictions as to whether human capital gets reallocated to its most productive use following these shocks. To empirically test these predictions, we focus on relegation battles in the...

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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Employers : Evidence from New York

Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We designed and fielded a survey of New York and Pennsylvania firms to study the impacts of New York's 2018 Paid Family Leave policy on employer outcomes. We match each NY firm to a comparable PA firm and use difference-in-difference models to analyze within-match-pair changes in outcomes. We...

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Sorting with Team Formation

Boerma, Job; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Zimin, Alexander P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We fully solve an assignment problem with heterogeneous firms and multiple heterogeneous workers whose skills are imperfect substitutes, that is, when production is submodular. We show that sorting is neither positive nor negative and is characterized sufficiently by two regions. In the first...

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