Showing 1 - 10 of 1,049
question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137530
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148355
We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926714
The paper uses novel data for Germany linking worker and establishment surveys with administrative social security data … fairness as an important organizational justice variable, (2) the impact of firms' wage structures on workers' job satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857831
The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315538
Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee panel data from Portugal. In the spirit of Baker et al. (1994a,b), we consider different dimensions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980315
The diversity of social interaction within economic communities affects productivity and growth, and is itself shaped by economic conditions. These reciprocal effects raise the possibility of multiple equilibria, of setting a socially polarized economy stagnating in poverty on a new path of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917100
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920431
Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity in terms of cultural background, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of the firms' production function (Ackerberg et al. 2006),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098130
In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this comprehensive database and implementing proper instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098131