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Do Women Prefer a Co-Operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2011

paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic …

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Do Women Prefer a Co-Operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2011

paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120126

Do women prefer a co-operative work environment?

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2011

-selection ; confidence ; experiment … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

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Trust and Control at the Workplace : Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe

Grund, Christian - 2009

Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of performance appraisal systems, monitoring by...

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Trust and control at the workplace : evidence from representative samples of employees in Europe

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2009

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Competition and fatigue at work

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018

We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...

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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a …

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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment

Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2020

being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a …, subjects can apply for leadership, whereas in the control treatment, we assign leadership randomly. Results reveal that women … leaders, we find that sorting into leadership is not related to individual honesty preferences. In the control we find that …

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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment

Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2020

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Use and Abuse of Authority : A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...

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