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Gender diversity in teams
Azmat, Ghazala - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
, prosocial behavior) show how gender composition influences group decision-making and subsequent performance through channels …
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Goal setting and worker motivation
Goerg, Sebastian J. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
solely on monetary incentives, such as pay-for-performance schemes? One tool that has shown promise in recent decades for … improving worker performance is setting goals, whether they are assigned by management or self-chosen. Goals are powerful …
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Gender diversity in teams
Azmat, Ghazala - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
subsequent performance. This works through channels such as investment decisions, internal management, corporate governance, and …
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: Opportunities and limitations
Caliendo, Marco - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Turning unemployment into self-employment is a suitable alternative to traditional active labor market policies in many … because of group-specific labor market constraints or structural changes. Furthermore, start-up subsidies are potentially …
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Can lab experiments help design personnel policies?
Villeval, Marie Claire - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
increase employees’ motivation? Should a firm provide evaluation feedback to employees based on their absolute or their … relative performance? Laboratory experiments can help address these questions by identifying the causal impact of variations in …
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The usefulness of experiments
Smith, Jeffrey A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Non-experimental evaluations of programs compare individuals who choose to participate in a program to individuals who do not. Such comparisons run the risk of conflating non-random selection into the program with its causal effects. By randomly assigning individuals to participate in the...
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