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Dur, Robert; van Lent, Max - 2018

It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...

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Works councils, wages, and job satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Schmitt, Andreas - 2011

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …

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Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Schmitt, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees’ wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …

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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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Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations

Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023

In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus...

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Emotions and Incentives

Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

We introduce a concept of emotions that emerge when workers compare their own performance with a given standard or with the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are...

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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2006

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping or cheating within a tournament game...

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Should you allow your agent to become your competitor? On non-compete agreements in employment contracts

Kräkel, Matthias; Sliwka, Dirk - 2006

We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be beneficial for the principal as the possibility to leave the firm generates implicit incentives for the...

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To shape the future: how labor market entry conditions affect individuals' long-run wage profiles

Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals … starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite persistent and even though wages do catch up later on, large effects … aggregate level are key to explain wages' adjustment process in the longer run. …

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Increasing income inequality: productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010

In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...

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