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The distribution of talent and the pattern and consequences of international trade

Grossman, Gene M. - 2002

In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of talent can be an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two activities, one in which an individual's contribution to production can be measured accurately and another in which...

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Social interaction, co-Worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Sol, Joeri (contributor) - 2008

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment

Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017

We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...

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Improving workplace climate in large corporations : a clustered randomized intervention

Alan, Sule; Corekcioglu, Gozde; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

We evaluate the impact of a program aiming at improving the workplace climate in corporations. The program is implemented via a clustered randomized design and evaluated with respect to the prevalence of support networks, antisocial behavior, perceived relational atmosphere, and turnover rate....

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What does codetermination do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

interact with other labor market institutions, such as union representation and collective bargaining. We close by discussing …

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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...

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Worker representatives

Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - 2024

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

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The effect of network degree on bargaining : experimental evidence from the field

D'Exelle, Ben; Gutekunst, Christine; Riedl, Arno - 2025

affects bargaining demands and outcomes. We combine data from a bilateral bargaining experiment with data of trade networks in … the disclosure of participants’ identities in a bargaining pair. We derive hypotheses on how degree should affect behavior … and find partial support for them. Specifically, we observe that individual degree affects bargaining demands in the …

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Markups, markdowns, and bargaining in a vertical supply chain

Avignon, Rémi; Chambolle, Claire; Guigue, Etienne; … - 2025

vertical supply chain. We develop a bilateral monopoly model with bargaining that accommodates upstream monopsony and … willing to trade less. Welfare is maximized when each firm's bargaining power exactly countervails the other's market power …. Otherwise, double marginalization arises in the form of double markdownization under excessive downstream bargaining power, or …

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Strategic wage setting and coordination frictions with multiple applications

Gautier, Pieter (contributor); … - 2004

We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment...

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