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Employee incentives: Bonuses or penalties?
Nosenzo, Daniele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Firms regularly use incentives to motivate their employees to be more productive. However, often little attention is paid to the language used in employment contracts to describe these incentives. It may be more effective to present incentives as entitlements that can be lost by failing to reach...
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Fixing feedback revision rules in online markets
Bolton, Gary E.; Breuer, Kevin; Greiner, Ben; … - 2021
Feedback withdrawal mechanisms in online markets aim to facilitate the resolution of conflicts during transactions. Yet, frequently used online feedback withdrawal rules are flawed and may backfire by inviting strategic transaction and feedback behavior. Our laboratory experiment shows how a...
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Institutional Choice and Cooperation in Representative Democracies: An Experimental Approach
Schories, Fanny E. - 2017
This paper examines whether an institution has a differing impact on cooperation if it is introduced by a representative of the affected parties rather than exogenously imposed. The experimental design is able to control for selection effects arising from the democratic policy choice. I find...
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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18...
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
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The motherhood wage penalty: A varieties of capitalism approach
Lundquist, Erik; Eklööf, Hanna - 2017
This paper aims to relate the issue of the Motherhood Wage Penalty to the institutional framework "Varieties of Capitalism." Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we perform cross-national analyses on the discrepancy in wages between mothers with young children and females without...
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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498059
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Corruption and bureaucracy in public services
Ionescu, Luminiţa; Lăzăroiu, George; Iosif, Gheorghe - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 14 (2012) Special No. 6, pp. 665-679
The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the importance of big-time corruption in … the benefits of openness and transparency in tackling corruption in the public sector, the bureaucratization of service … provide useful insights on the context and causes of corruption, incentives to assure efficiency within the public bureaucracy …
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …
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Decentralization of firms in a country with weak institutions: Evidence from Russia
Levina, Irina - 2018
in investment between really decentralized and other firms declines as corruption grows. Empirical research presented in … institutions, such as that of Russia. However, as the role of non-market factors (such as corruption) in firms' prosperity …
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