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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition
Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318374
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Switching Models with Self-Selection: Self-Employment in Hungary
Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
We estimate the determinants of earnings for both the self-employed and wage/salary sectors in an economy undergoing transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman's two-step method, while taking both participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334363
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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013
that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism is positively associated with innovation, judgmental overconfidence is negatively linked … to innovation. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332036
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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013
that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316868
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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies
Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023
Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a targeted exogenous matching policy aimed at maximizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013556510
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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies
Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023
Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a targeted exogenous matching policy designed to maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333783