Leistungsorientierte Vergütungssyteme können mit nicht-intendierten Effekten einhergehen, die in der Personalwirtschaftslehre unter dem Stichwort der Motivationsverdrängung diskutiert werden. Die Evaluierung der Wirkung leistungsorientierter Vergütungssysteme durch Mitarbeiterbefragungen...

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re-luctance to choose technical occupations, although the foundations for career choices are certainly laid earlier, during education. Educational experts claim that female students are doing better in math and science and are...

In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...

The gender gap in smoking prevalence is closing in several developed countries due to decreasing smoking rates among men and increasing among women. Previous studies present a variety of hypotheses with the central argument that the process of gender equality is related to the declining trend...

Psychische Belastungen in der Arbeitswelt haben seit einigen Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. Der Wandel der Erwerbsarbeit und ein verändertes Verständnis der Zusammenhänge von Belastungen und Gesundheit haben neue Aufgaben für die betriebliche Gesundheitspolitik in den Mittelpunkt gestellt. In...

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

This paper complements conventional economic analysis and presents a social norms interpretation to explain cross-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in particular. We argue that increases in female human...