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KRÄKEL, MATTHIAS - In: International Game Theory Review (IGTR) 07 (2005) 02, pp. 211-228

A two-stage, two-person tournament is discussed, in which each player can influence the other one at the first stage by choosing help, sabotage or no action. At the second stage, the players choose effort to win the tournament. Helping and sabotaging have two effects — they influence the...

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Employee Ownership, Employment, and Work-from-Home in the Covid-19 Shock to the US Job Market

Xu, Huanan; Blasi, Joseph R.; Kruse, Douglas; Freeman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

To what extent, if at all, did employee-owned (EO) firms maintain jobs for workers compared to non-EO firms in the spring 2020 Covid-19 shock to the US economy? Did EO firms shift jobs from workplaces to work-from-home locations in the pandemic more or less than other firms? This paper uses a...

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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …

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Work Effort During and After Employment Probation: Evidence from German Personnel Data

Pfeifer, Christian - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 230 (2010) 1, pp. 77-91

probation on worker absenteeism as a proxy for work effort. The main finding is that new white-collar workers are on average …

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DEMONSTRATING WORKER QUALITY THROUGH STRATEGIC ABSENTEEISM

HARBAUGH, WILLIAM T.; NOUWELAND, ANNE VAN DEN - In: International Game Theory Review (IGTR) 07 (2005) 02, pp. 189-209

at least partly voluntary: vacation time and sick days. In this paper, we develop a model of optimal absenteeism by …

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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide ‘stepping stones’ into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons, workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees....

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Hiring Workers with Disabilities when a Quota Requirement Exists: The Relevance of Firm’s Size

Malo, Miguel Ángel; Pagan, Ricardo - In: Disadvantaged Workers

We evaluate the impact of a mandatory quota of workers with disabilities using a sharp regression discontinuity design. We use data from a panel of Spanish firms where there is a mandatory quota of 2 % for firms with 50 or more workers. Non-parametric estimations show that strictly beyond the...

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An empirical analysis of capital structure on performance of firms in the petroleum industry in Nigeria

Oladeji, Tolulope; Ikpefan, A. O.; Olokoyo, F.O. - In: Journal of accounting and auditing : research & … (2015), pp. 1-9

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Virtualization of Information Systems in Conditions of Globalization

Sulov, Vladimir - In: Economic Studies journal (2006) 2, pp. 120-142

In the contemporary conditions of globalization of economic activity and increased competition, there is a growing need of quality and efficient information systems. The goal of the study is to propose directions for improving information systems through virtualization. The main information...

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The United States Labor Market: Status Quo or A New Normal?

Lazear, Edward; Spletzer, James R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The recession of 2007-09 witnessed high rates of unemployment that have been slow to recede. This has led many to conclude that structural changes have occurred in the labor market and that the economy will not return to the low rates of unemployment that prevailed in the recent past. Is this...

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