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Sorting in the Labor Market : Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Krueger, Alan B. - 2007

the United States and France on whether workers who are more gregarious, as revealed by their behavior when they are not …

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Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service : Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts

Ash, Elliott - 2014

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the intrinsic preferences of state appellate court judges. We construct a panel data set using published decisions from state supreme court cases merged with institutional and biographical information on all (1,636) state supreme court...

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2008

We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations : Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B. - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective tires....

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The Decline of Drudgery and the Paradox of Hard Work

Epstein, Brendan; Kimball, Miles S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop a theory that focuses on the general equilibrium and long-run macroeconomic consequences of trends in job utility--the process benefits and costs of work. Given secular increases in job utility, work hours per population can remain approximately constant over time even if the income...

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...

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Personnel Economics : Hiring and Incentives

Oyer, Paul - 2010

We survey the Personnel Economics literature, focusing on how firms establish, maintain, and end employment relationships and on how firms provide incentives to employees. This literature has been very successful in generating models and empirical work about incentive systems. Some of the...

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Who’s Paying Attention? Measuring Common Ownership and Its Impact on Managerial Incentives

Gilje, Erik P. - 2019

We derive a measure that captures the extent to which overlapping ownership structures shift managers' incentives to …

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Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring

Ding, Wenzhi; Chen, Lin; Schmid, Thomas; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What makes independent directors perform their monitoring duty? One possible reason is that they are worried about being sanctioned by regulators if they do not monitor sufficiently well. Using unique features of the Chinese financial market, we estimate the extent to which independent...

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Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy : Evidence from French Grocery Stores

Glover, Dylan - 2016

minority job performance. In the stores studied, cashiers work with different managers on different days and their schedules … are determined quasi-randomly. When minority cashiers, but not majority cashiers, are scheduled to work with managers who … minority workers: while on average minority and majority workers perform equivalently, on days where managers are unbiased …

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