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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives

Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - 2021

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve highquality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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Modelling Low Pay Transition Probabilities, Accounting for Panel Attrition, Non-Response, and Initial Conditions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - CESifo - 2004

drop-out mechanisms (panel attrition, non-employment) and ‘initial conditions’ (base-year low pay status). This model, and … initial conditions and retention of employment are more important than the ‘survey’ selection mechanism (attrition). However …

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Strategic R&D with Knowledge Spillovers and Endogenous Time to Complete

Kort, Peter M.; Lukach, Ruslan; Plasmans, Joseph - CESifo - 2007

asymmetry in R&D efficiency between firms is an important factor determining feasibility of the preemption and attrition … scenarios in competitive R&D with time to build. Scenarios of attrition and preemption games are most likely to occur when … competitors have similar R&D efficiencies. In case of largely asymmetric firms the games of attrition and preemption are very …

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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform’s initial success having a negative impact...

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Optimal Incentive Contracts For a Worker Who Envies His Boss

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - CESifo - 2004

A worker’s utility may increase in his own income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer’s income. Such behavior may call for high-powered incentives, so that increased effort by the worker little increases the income of his employer. This paper uses a principal-agent model...

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Responsibility and Redistribution: The Case of First Best Taxation

Tungodden, Bertil - CESifo - 2001

this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic … ethics of compensation, and we report an impossibility result that clarifies the source of this conflict. …

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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - CESifo - 2011

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Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy

Frey, Bruno S.; Benz, Matthias - CESifo - 2003

One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...

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Why so Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - CESifo - 2005

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...

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