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Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

Bandiera, Oriana; Guiso, Luigi; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2012

We provide evidence on the match between rms, managers, and incentives using anew survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital,on their compensation schemes, and on the rms they work for. The data is consistentwith the equilibrium correlations predicted by...

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International Comparisons in Health Economics:Evidence from Aging Studies

Banks, James; Smith, James P. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

We provide an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiplecountries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at olderages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage, much of the analysis is at an earlystage and limited to a...

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The Effects of World War II onEconomic and Health Outcomes across Europe

Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status(SES) and health of older individuals in Europe. Physical and psychological childhood eventsare important predictors for labor market and health outcomes in adult life, but studies thatquantify these...

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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market:Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affectedChinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded tothe events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese nationals present inthe U.S. It first suspended all forced...

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Team Incentives:Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-basedincentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affectproductivity by changing both workers’ effort and team composition. We present evidencefrom a field experiment...

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Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior

Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examinesthe impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exitfrom the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in hours of work is a useful measure topostpone retirement,...

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The Demographic Transition:Causes and Consequences

Galor, Oded - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the variousmechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition.Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance forthe understanding of...

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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance

Gibbs, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance inpractice....

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Development and Sources of Labor Productivityin Chinese Provinces

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform andopenness, the development and sources of labor productivity has gradually come to theforefront. This paper studies the development and the source of labor productivity in 31Chinese provinces during the period of...

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Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Optionsand the Fallacies of Economic Theory

Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

what we call Warrant Economics forthe Free-Market Aristocracy. Warrant Economics unfolds in two symbiotic tenets …/monopolistic industries, as the twosides of the Warrant Economics coin. We argue that the Warrant Economics state ofcapitalism has been … legitimised by a degenerating research programme blossomed under thefallacy that economics is the “physics of society”. In this …

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