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Worker self-selection and the profits from cooperation

Kosfeld, Michael (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort … weakly lower wages. -- Team work ; self-selection …

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Worker self-selection and the profits from cooperation

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand A. von - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (2009) 2/3, pp. 573-582

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Competition, cooperation, and corporate culture

Kosfeld, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

team work if their co-workers do the same. We show that there is no pooling in equilibrium, and that workers self …-select into firms that differ in their incentives as well as their resulting level of team work. Our model can explain why firms …

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Competition, cooperation, and corporate culture

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2007

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Can you trust the good guys? : trust within and between groups with different missions

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2013

NGOs and other non-profit organizations attract workers who strongly identify themselves with their missions. We study whether these "good guys" are more trustworthy and how such pronounced group identities affect trust and trustworthiness within the groups and toward out-groups. We find that...

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Team production in competitive labor markets with adverse selection

Siemens, Ferdinand von; Kosfeld, Michael - 2014

Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can … create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and …

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