The relationship between ageing and skills is becoming an important policy issue, not least in the context of population ageing. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will potentially add considerably to the understanding of the relationship...

The authors investigate on the basis of primary and secondary data the relationship between individual cognitive skills and the complexity of the particular work those individuals perform. Additionally, the relationship between skills and mobility between more or less complex jobs in an highly...

In knowledge-intensive economies, ideas and innovation are key drivers of a company's competitiveness and success. In such a climate a company must strategise methods designed to incentivize the generation of new ideas and build a culture that rewards the production of knowledge. Many scholars...

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage...

Linking survey data to administrative records provides access to large quantities of information such as full employment biographies. Although this practice is becoming increasingly common, only a small number of studies in the field of social sciences have thus far investigated the variables...

In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time. Player talent is the most important prerequisite for team success in professional sports leagues and changes in players' assortativeness in regard to the clubs they play for may...

In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time. Player talent is the most important prerequisite for team success in professional sports leagues and changes in players' assortativeness in regard to the clubs they play for may...

In this paper, we study whether performance feedback can serve as an instrument for firms to increase employee retention. Feedback on the relative performance may affect individual job search behavior differently depending on workers' relative rank among their peers. In line with these...

Flexible Arbeitsmodelle sind im Zuge der Digitalisierung stärker in den Fokus von Personalmanagern/-innen gerückt. Auch die Politik widmet sich dem Thema zunehmend, wie der jüngste Vorstoß zur Einführung eines gesetzlichen Rechts auf Homeoffice zeigt. Allerdings sind die Beschäftigten, die...

Das Arbeiten von zu Hause erlebt angesichts der Corona-Krise einen ungeahnten Schub. Tatsächlich wurde das Potenzial an beruflichen Tätigkeiten, die auch im Homeoffice erledigt werden könnten, schon zuvor keineswegs ausgeschöpft und kann auch gegenwärtig noch nicht voll genutzt werden....