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Smart-Working : Work Flexibility Without Constraints
Angelici, Marta - 2020
Does removing the constraints of time and place of work increase the utility of workers and firms? We design a randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that engages in flexible space and time job (which we call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839264
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Does team telecommuting affect productivity? : an experiment
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Saral, Krista Jabs - 2012
Telecommuting policies have been increasingly adopted by employers. The benefits of telecommuting from the employer's perspective include direct cost-saving from not having to house employees in an office and indirect cost-saving through reduced turnover associated with increased employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742602
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Adverse effects of monitoring : evidence from a field experiment
Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2021
We conduct a field experiment with remote workers to assess potential adverse effects of monitoring. We find that monitoring reduces the average performance of workers, in particular among the intrinsically motivated workforce. Moreover, monitoring cultivates the average worker: There are fewer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433003
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Smart-working : work flexibility without constraints
Angelici, Marta; Profeta, Paola - 2020
Does removing the constraints of time and place of work increase the utility of workers and firms? We design a randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that engages in flexible space and time job (which we call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177144
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Disentangling the Attractiveness of Telework to Employees : A Factorial Survey Experiment
Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2022
This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an … characteristics, among which a wide variation in telework possibilities. We find that the relationship between the possibility to … telework and job attractiveness is approximately linear: 10 percentage points more telework hours yield a rise of 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030826
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Psychology and economics rather than psychology versus economics : cultural differences but no barriers!
Brandstätter, Hermann; Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2008
During the last three decades the ascent of behavioral economics clearly helped to bring down artificial disciplinary boundaries between psychology and economics. Noting that behavioral economics seems still under the spell of the rational choice tradition and, indirectly, of behaviorism we...
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Chess players' performance beyond 64 squares : a case study on the limitations of cognitive abilities transfer
Bühren, Christoph; Frank, Björn - 2010
In a beauty contest experiment with over 6,000 chess players, ranked from amateur to world class, we found that Grandmasters act very similar to other humans. This even holds true when they play exclusively against players of approximately their own strength. In line with psychological research...
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Do i really want to know? : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2010
We investigate to what extent genuine social preferences can explain observed other-regarding behavior. In a dictator game variant subjects can choose whether to learn about the consequences of their choice for the receiver. We find that a majority of subjects showing other-regarding behavior...
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Exploring the capability to backward induct : an experimental study with children and young adults
Brosig-Koch, Jeanette; Heinrich, Timo; Helbach, Christoph - 2012
We investigate learning and the development of the capability to backward induct in children and young adults aged 6 to 23 under controlled laboratory conditions. The experimental design employs a modified version of the race game. As in the original game (see Burks et al., 2009, Dufwenberg et...
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On the persistence of strategic sophistication
Georganas, Sotiris; Healy, Paul J.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
We examine whether the "Level-k" model of strategic behavior generates reliable cross-game predictions within an individual. We find no correlation in subjects' estimated levels of reasoning across two families of games. Furthermore, estimating a higher level for Ann than Bob in one family of...
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