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Cooper, David J. - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...

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Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes

Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - 2021

The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This paper addresses this puzzle. Data from the Current...

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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance

Jones, Melanie - 2011

This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...

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Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms : Insights from Experimental Economics

Abeler, Johannes - 2011

In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity and efficiency have been seen as opposing aims in such...

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Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

Farina, Egidio - 2020

The increasing numbers of workers in employment with little to no job security, so-called precarious employment, has led to a range of concerns over worker outcomes. A particular focus is the effect of instability on health in general, and particularly, mental health. We provide new evidence on...

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The Economics of Prozac : Do Employees Really Gain from Strong Employment Protection?

Wasmer, Etienne - 2021

Health Survey) including details on work-related stress and the consumption of various medications, including anti … hypothesis: we even find positive links between individual employment protection and some dimensions of stress, and weaker but … previous results, as well as falsification exercises: family stress for instance is not correlated with regional EPL, while …

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Opening the Black Box : Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

Blackwood, G.Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...

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Information and Communication Technology, Hierarchy, and Job Design

Gerten, Elisa; Beckmann, Michael; Kräkel, Matthias - 2022

In recent decades, information and communication technology (ICT) has been associated with far-reaching changes in the design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate...

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Motivational Goal Bracketing : An Experiment

Koch, Alexander K. - 2017

We study in an online, real-effort experiment how the bracketing of non-binding goals affects performance in a work-leisure self-control problem. We externally induce the goal bracket – daily goals or a weekly goal – and within that bracket let subjects set goals for how much they want to...

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