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Unemployment, Growth and the Organisation of Work

de Groot, Henri L.F.; van Schaik, Anton B.T.M. - 2002

We develop a two-sector endogenous growth model with a dual labour market resulting from the presence of an effort extraction function in one sector. Effort of workers can be influenced by pay and monitoring. This results in an endogenous non-competitive wage differential between sectors and a...

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Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database

Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - 2007

An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...

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Learning from Praise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Teachers

Cotofan, Maria - 2019

Non-monetary incentives such as praise are common-place, but their effects on workers performing cognitively-complex tasks remain largely unknown. I expand the teacher incentive literature through a field experiment measuring how repeated public praise for the best teachers impacts teacher...

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The Economics of Information in Transport

Rietveld, Piet - 2010

Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...

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Importance of E-services for Cultural Tourism

van Leeuwen, Eveline; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011

of e-services in urban cultural tourism. Its aim is to map out the relative drivers of cultural visitors to cities with a … particular view on the importance of modern e-services in the tourist sector. We focus on three case-study cities: Amsterdam … heritage and e-services. Interestingly, in all three cities, the most important group of tourists, the cultural heritage …

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Describing the Relationships between Tourist Satisfaction and Destination Loyalty in a Segmented and Digitalized Market

Neuts, Bart; Romão, João; van Leeuwen, Eveline; … - 2013

As a result of advances in ICT-services, transportation, and local development, among others, an increasing number of … tourist loyalty is well founded, recent progress in e-services has opened new opportunities for informing and attracting … visitors. This paper examines the potential effects of e-services in an inclusive model of destination loyalty towards the city …

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Social Network Sites, Individual Social Capital and Happiness

Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn J.; Novik, Natallia A. - 2016

Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our pursuit of happiness? With the growing use of social network sites (SNSs), attention has been increasingly drawn to this topic. Our study empirically examines the effect of SNS use on happiness for different...

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Recent Topical Research on Global, Energy, Health & Medical, and Tourism Economics, and Global Software

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2017

implications, access to maternal and child health services of migrant workers, computer technology to improve medical information …

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Social Network Sites, Individual Social Capital and Happiness

Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn; Novik, Natallia - 2016

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Loyalty Programs and Consumer Behaviour: The Impact of FFPs on Consumer Surplus

Behrens, Christiaan; McCaughey, Nathalie - 2015

Frequent Flier Programs (FFPs) are said to impact airline consumer behaviour such that revenue of sponsoring airlines increases. Prior research relies on aggregate industry data to study FFPs. We examine the impact of FFPs on individual consumer behaviour in a quasi-natural experimental set-up...

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