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Tumen, Semih - 2015

I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage dispersion within the firm. Given a set of heterogeneous workers, the manager faces the challenge...

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Peer Effects in the Workplace

Cornelißen, Thomas - 2013

workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … – which links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages – circumvents the reflection problem and … accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms.On average, we find only small peer effects in wages …

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Peer Effects in the Workplace : A Network Approach

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sauermann, Jan; Zenou, Yves - 2022

We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply this method to data from an in-house call center of a multinational mobile network operator that include detailed information on individual performance. We find that a 10%...

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Employer Cooperation, Productivity, and Wages : New Evidence from Inter-Firm Formal Network Agreements

Devicienti, Francesco; Grinza, Elena; Manello, Alessandro; … - 2022

, suggest that the negative effects on wages might be explained by a decrease in workers' bargaining power following the …

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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Long, Wenjin - 2013

effects of the use of networks on wages. Users of networks tend to be older, to have migrated longer ago and to be less … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower … wages …

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Garnero, Andrea - 2013

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …

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Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Beugnot, Julie - 2017

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender heterogeneity that we test by means of a...

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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Beugnot, Julie - 2013

This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...

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Social Comparison and Performance : Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis

Gächter, Simon - 2010

We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...

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Worker Productivity and Wages : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Lopes, Ana Sofia - 2012

This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm …

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