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Individual Team Productivity - A Conceptual Approach
Müller, Julia; Upmann, Thorsten; Prinz, Joachim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this … individual team productivity which is closely related to eigenvalue centrality; accordingly we refer to it as eigenvalue … productivity. For each version of eigenvalue productivity we provide an example demonstrating the operability of our concept. …
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Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism
Ommeren, Jos van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209526
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The Golden Age of Nobel Economists
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributions
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504895
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867499
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Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism
Ommeren, Jos van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257093
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257185
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The Golden Age of Nobel Economists
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributionsbetween the ages of 29 and 38. The average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of laureates in chemistry andmedicine/physiology. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257405
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
probabilities, the productivity of a match, and the flow value of non-labor market time; the estimates are then used to derive the … number of applications result is due to rent seeking behavior. Sizable welfare gains (15% to 20%) can be realized by … applying for at least one job per period, increases welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144494
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Unionization Structure, Licensing and Innovation
Mukherjee, Arijit; Pennings, Enrico - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
. Unions have a clear preference for centralization only if productivity improvements are relatively small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137228
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137346