Search Results - subject:"Multi Tasking"

The division of labor and the market for organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job … the need for coordination of the work of different workers, the present analysis focuses on the returns from multi-tasking … of the versatility of human capital. The paper also explores how the move towards multi-tasking can affect the labor …

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Feminist Ecological Economics and Sustainability

Perkins, Patricia - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 9 (2007) 3, pp. 227-244

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The division of labor within firms

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1997

change in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation … for coordination of the work of different workers, the present analysis focuses on the returns from multi-tasking, which …

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The Division of Labor Within Firms

Lindbeck, Assar - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1997

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Relying on the Agent in Charge of Production for Project Evaluation

Jeon, Doh-Shin - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2006

I study the optimal project choice when the principal relies on the agent in charge of production for project evaluation. The principal has to choose between a safe project generating a fixed revenue and a risky project generating an uncertain revenue. The agent has private information about the...

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A General Test of Gaming

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

An important lesson from the incentive literature is that explicit incentives may elicit dysfunctional and unintended responses, also known as gaming responses. The existence of these responses, however, is difficult to demonstrate in practice because this behaviour is typically hidden from the...

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Environmental policy as a multi-task principal-agent problem

Franckx, Laurent; D'Amato, Alessio - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2003

We use a multi-task principal-agent model with moral hazard to study environmental regulation of a private agent by an EPA that can also allocate its budget to an alternative project with environmental benefits. In a first possible optimum, the EPA imposes a flat fine that exhausts the agent's...

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An Empirical Investigation of Gaming Responses to Explicit Performance Incentives

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies a particular kind of gaming response to explicit incentives in a large government organization. The gaming responses we consider occur when agents strategically report their performance outcomes to maximize their awards. An important contribution of this work is to examine...

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Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers: theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

van den Bergh, Gerhard; van deer Klaauw, Bas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

We investigate the effect of conseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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Counselling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment

den Berg, Gerard J van; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We investigate the effect of counselling and monitoring on the individual employment transition rate. We theoretically analyse these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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