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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …

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The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2001

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...

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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 respect to sex and occupational status. Making use of a German representative sample of employees, we find that employees, who move to a firm with a works council, report...

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Are self-employed really happier than employees? An approach modelling adaptation and anticipation effects to self-employment and general job changes

Hanglberger, Dominik; Merz, Joachim - 2011

Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...

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Monetary reference points of managers: An empirical investigation of status quo preferences and social comparisons

Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2012

We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a...

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Understanding social interactions: Evidence from the classroom

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011

There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...

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Quitting and peer effects at work

Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2012

While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....

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Whom to choose as a team mate? A lab experiment about in-group favouritism

Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine; Nieken, Petra - 2012

choose as a team mate. The novel feature of your study is that the choice of a team mate is either benevolence or relevant to … (path of study) of the pool of possible team mates and received a signal giving weak information about their ability … chosen team mate. However, we found the opposite. The subjects exerted more favouritism in the revenue sharing scenario …

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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace: Evidence from a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

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