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Why develop open source software? The role of non-pecuniary benefits, monetary rewards and open source licence type
Sauer, Robert M. - 2007
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268441
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies:An Empirical Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861409
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Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market IncentiveEffects of Extending Social Support in Poland
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by nowcomplete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the systemof support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemescompared to those found in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861416
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Is There An Informal Employment Wage Penalty?Evidence from South Africa
Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector.To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accuratelydistinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sectorand link individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861425
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Commitment to self-rewards
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
Self-administered rewards are ubiquitous. They serve as incentives for personal accomplishments and are widely recommended as tools for overcoming self-control problems. However, it seems puzzling why self-rewards can work: the prospect of a reward has a motivating force only if the threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271233
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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives: Standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets
Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010
documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272684
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Why do individuals choose self-employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009
entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274537
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822900
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural … administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim … poor labor market outcomes later in life. Specifically, exposure to Ramadan in the 7th month of gestation results in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095510
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Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search
Wolthoff, Ronald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805621