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composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
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We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
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In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …
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designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...
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We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …
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Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. In order to avoid these problems we explicitly model the determinants of wage changes and the...
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western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …
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Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
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