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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas

Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

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Human resources and innovation : total factor productivity and foreign human capital

Fassio, Claudio; Kalantaryan, Sona; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

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Inputs, incentives, and self-selection at the workplace

Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...

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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009

To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...

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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. -- labor diversity ; ethnic diversity ; patenting activity ; extensive and intensive margins …

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Employee absence : an organizational perspective

Eskildsen, Jacob Kjær; Frederiksen, Anders; Løkke, … - 2018

We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the...

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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

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Up or out : research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2012

Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of...

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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - 2014

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

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