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Services are Different: Job Characteristics, Working Conditions and Pay Levels in OECD Countries

Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 55-57

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Analysis of determinants of work performance for seafarers based on Fuzzy Electre Model

Massami, Erick P.; Manyasi, Malima M. - In: Journal of Shipping and Trade (JST) 6 (2021) 1, pp. 1-20

Nowadays, most shipping companies are aware of the importance of analysing seafarers' work performance. Thus, improving … seafarers' work performance or finding out the ways by which seafarers' work performance can be enhanced is becoming one of the … decisive factors for the success of any shipping company. Any organization aims to have employees who can accomplish corporate …

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Dynamic Approach of Capital Structure of European Shipping Companies

Arvanitis, Stavros H.; Tzigkounaki, Irakleia S.; … - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 33-63

of the European Maritime Enterprises (oceanic shipping). We focus on shipping companies, because of the large volume of … firstly the identification of factors that affect the capital structure of European oceanic shipping and secondly to search … of 32 listed European shipping companies for the period 2005-2010. The results suggest the prevalence of pecking order …

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For now, middle-skilled jobs are the most vulnerable

Levy, Frank; Murnane, Richard J. - In: CESifo Forum 07 (2006) 2, pp. 38

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Activities that do not require physical contact or geographical proximity

Blinder, Alan S. - In: CESifo Forum 07 (2006) 2, pp. 39-40

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Role selection and team performance

Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

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Testing the Theory of Multitasking: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories

Hong, Fuhai; Hossain, Tanjim; List, John A.; Tanaka, Migiwa - 2013

A well-recognized problem in the multitasking literature is that workers might substantially reduce their effort on tasks that produce unobservable outputs as they seek the salient rewards to observable outputs. Since the theory related to multitasking is decades ahead of the empirical evidence,...

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Signaling with performance and the effect of competition

Suzuki, Toru - 2010

Candidates compete to persuade a decision maker. The decision maker wishes to select a candidate who possesses a certain ability. Then, as a signaling, each candidate decides whether to perform a task whose performance statistically reflects the ability. However, since the cost of the...

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The multi-dimensional effects of reciprocity on worker effort: Evidence from a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment

Kim, Min-taec; Slonim, Robert - 2012

We examine the gift exchange hypothesis on both the quantity and quality of output using a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment. We recruited participants to enter survey data for a well-known charitable organization. Workers were paid either a high or low wage. We find that although...

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The effect of financial incentives and task-specific cognitive abilities on task performance

Rydval, Ondérej - 2011

We extend evidence on the interaction between financial incentives and cognitive abilities by focusing on the effect of task-specific abilities. In a memory-intensive task situated in an accounting context, the effect of accounting education on performance is stronger under financial incentives...

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