Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die internationalen Entwicklung von Arbeitseinstellungen auf der Basis einer groß angelegten Untersuchung.

The proportion of U.S. high school students working during the school year ranges from 23% in thefreshman year to 75% in the senior year. This study estimates how cumulative work histories duringthe high school years affect probability of dropout, high school academic performance, and...

In the United States, both federal and state governments have tried to establish and enforcechild labor laws to protect youth from work that interferes with their schooling. While federalchild labor law focuses on the work experience of minors, especially those aged 15 andbelow; state child...

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies using either quarterly or annual data from differentcountries with varying institutional frameworks, it is not yet clear whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the...

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international companyto study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performancerelated remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other isa more structured...

Ein zentrales personalwirtschaftliches Steuerungselement im Reformprozess öffentlicher Organisationen ist der verstärkte Einsatz materieller Anreizsysteme. Die Vergabe von Leistungszulagen hat jedoch Leistungsbeurteilungen zur Voraussetzung. Der Bericht diskutiert Anforderungen an Instrumente...

This report grew out of various needs. First, the aim to demonstrate undergraduate stu-dents the differentiation of the German public service necessitated the development of the multi-dimensional graph we repeatedly employ here (see 1.4). Second, international scientific exchange made it clear...

Die Arbeit befasst sich theoretisch und empirisch mit der so genannten Public ServiceMotivation (PSM) und ihrem Zusammenhang zu anderen psychologischenMotivationstheorien. Die Public Service Motivation geht davon aus, dass öffentlichBeschäftigte unter anderem dadurch motiviert sind, dass sie...