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Toimihenkilöiden työ- ja palkkaurat Suomen teollisuudessa
Jokinen, Juha-Pekka - 2009
In this study we focus on differences in careers and wage development between white-collar workers. We are interested in the questions of which factors contribute to these differences and at what stage of the career they occur. Furthermore, we investigate the wage effects of the different types...
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The incentive to participate in open source projects: A signaling approach
Spiegel, Yossi - 2008
This paper examines the incentive of unpaid programmers to contribute to open source software (OSS) projects in order to signal their talents. The analysis shows that if programmers contribute to OSS projects at all, then generically there are multiple equilibria. In these equilibria, an...
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The Peter Principle: an experiment
Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2007
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of...
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Promotion tournaments in market equilibrium
Zabojnik, Jan - 2008
Standard models of promotion tournaments assume that firms can commit to arbitrary tournament prizes. In this paper, a firm's ability to adjust tournament prizes is constrained by the outside labor market, through the wages other firms are willing to offer to the promoted and unpromoted workers....
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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation
Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2008
This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...
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The European Labour Markets - Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits on the Paths Out of Unemployment
Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John - In: CESifo Forum 05 (2004) 1, pp. 24-30
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Who benefits from benefits? Empirical research on tangible incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
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Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth
Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2013
In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing … education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well … as out-of-school youth who have already done so; 2) Policies to increase earnings and incent more labor force …
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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
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