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The Peter Principle: an experiment
Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2007
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of...
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Promotion tournaments in market equilibrium
Zabojnik, Jan - 2008
Standard models of promotion tournaments assume that firms can commit to arbitrary tournament prizes. In this paper, a firm's ability to adjust tournament prizes is constrained by the outside labor market, through the wages other firms are willing to offer to the promoted and unpromoted workers....
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Motivational goal bracketing
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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Toimihenkilöiden työ- ja palkkaurat Suomen teollisuudessa
Jokinen, Juha-Pekka - 2009
In this study we focus on differences in careers and wage development between white-collar workers. We are interested in the questions of which factors contribute to these differences and at what stage of the career they occur. Furthermore, we investigate the wage effects of the different types...
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Gesundheit und Motivation der Mitarbeiter als Produkt betrieblicher Organisation: Ein systematischer Ansatz
Friczewski, Franz - 1996
Druck auf die Leistungsfähigkeit und -bereitschaft der Mitarbeiter, d.h. auf Gesundheit und Motivation in einem umfassenden … Beitrag leisten könnten, werden allerdings von den Arbeitswissenschaften (Biomechanik, Ergonomie, Arbeitspsychologie … gestalten, daß Gesundheit und Motivation der Mitarbeiter gefördert werden. Und die gesunde Person zeichnet sich aus durch …
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The incentive to participate in open source projects: A signaling approach
Spiegel, Yossi - 2008
This paper examines the incentive of unpaid programmers to contribute to open source software (OSS) projects in order to signal their talents. The analysis shows that if programmers contribute to OSS projects at all, then generically there are multiple equilibria. In these equilibria, an...
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Les femmes dans l'aviation: Assurer des emplois de qualité et favoriser le recrutement et le maintien en poste
Seligson, David - 2024
This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046524
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Las mujeres y la aviación: Empleos de calidad, atracción y retención
Seligson, David - 2024
This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046578
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An economic analysis of identity and career choice
Knoth Humlum, Maria; Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Skyt … - 2007
improved financial incentives if they aim at attracting the high ability youth to occupations with excess demand for labor. …
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