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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation … divergence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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Racing against time in research : a study of the 1995 U.S. patent law amendment
Kim, Jinyoung - 2017
Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664519
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Profit sharing and workplace productivity : does teamwork play a role?
Long, Richard J.; Fang, Tony - 2013
The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229935
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Complements or substitutes? : examining the relationship between teamwork and selection intensity
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2024
Teamwork has become widely embraced in recent decades; however, its adoption carries significant implications that … require thorough understanding. In this paper, we study the relationship between teamwork and selection intensity. The use of … complementary skills. However, teamwork may also substitute intensive selection if team members engage in mutual monitoring and peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502848
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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
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Psychological momentum and gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455776
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The effect of non-standard employment on mental health in Britain
Bardasi, Elena; Francesconi, Marco - 2000
This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data on workers from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Study, 1991-97. Four different types of non-standard employment (non-standard contracts, places, times, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339686
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What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199176
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The economics behind the epidemic : Afghan opium price and prescription opioids in the US
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2019
We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153296
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A path out : prescription drug abuse, treatment, and suicide
Borgschulte, Mark; Corredor-Waldron, Adriana; Marshall, … - 2018
In this paper we investigate the dual role of supply restrictions and drug treatment in combating the concurrent rise of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We find that supply-side interventions decrease suicides in places with strong addiction-help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814692