Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...

Creativity is the ability to combine unique ideas, identifying new ways, systems and products in the organization. Creative workers in the organization can transform their organization to higher level by inventing new systems. This study tried to examine employees’ creativity in the bank at...

The difference between existing intentions and actual behavior occurs in various forms, such as procrastination or companies not being able to implement planned changes, which may lead to competitive disadvantages in ever dynamic business environments. While current research is strongly focused...

Workforce development in the US today is spread across higher education institutions (primarily public 2-year and for-profit colleges), labor market institutions and workplaces, with public funding from a range of sources. But outcomes for students and workers are weaker than they could be,...

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...

A considerable body of research substantiating the importance of workforce diversity to public organizations has accrued over the past two decades. However, research on workforce diversity has also been narrow in scope and frequently fails to link diversity to important individual and...

Die Up-or-out-Regel besagt, dass Assistenten in Partnerschaften (oder auch Universitäten) nach einer gewissen Zeit zu Partnern aufsteigen oder die Partnerschaft verlassen müssen. Eine dauerhafte Assistententätigkeit ist nicht möglich. Dies wirft die Frage auf, warum nicht Assistent bleiben...

Small nonprofit organizations (SNPOs) are a large part of the growing nonprofit sector. These nonprofit organizations (NPOs) generally receive $100,000-$250,000 in annual revenue. These entities operate similarly to for-profit businesses, with a mission, values, and dependable employees. One...

This article investigates the motivation of contingent workers in the gig economy of China, particularly focusing on the two Mobile Food Delivery Aggregators (MFDA) - Meituan and Ele.me that controls over 80% of the food delivery market in China. The convenience of one "super-app" on phone,...

Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour...

Eine der Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie ist, dass sich die Arbeitssituation für viele Beschäftigte spürbar verändert hat. Die vorliegende Expertise stellt die Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Befragung von abhängig Beschäftigten im April 2021 vor.

Die vorliegende Studie stellt grundlegende Informationen zur Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich und zur Ausbildung des Fach- und Führungskräftenachwuchses zur Verfügung. Dafür werden auf Basis zahlreicher Indikatoren, die zumeist als...

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...

Die Digitalisierung treibt den Wandel der Welt der Arbeit voran. Dieser Wandel könnte durch die wissenschaftlich-technische Dynamik, die von Unternehmen kontrollierte Nachfrage nach qualifizierten Arbeitskräften oder vielmehr durch das Qualifikationsangebot der Arbeitnehmenden determiniert...

Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour...

Many studies use matched employer-employee data to estimate a statistical model of earnings determination where log-earnings are expressed as the sum of worker effects, firm effects, covariates, and idiosyncratic error terms. Estimates based on this model have produced two influential yet...

Using data for 2017 and 2018, this report provides a comparative analysis of minimum wage employment in Ireland, relative to a selection of other European countries with a statutory minimum wage. We estimate that just under 10 per cent of employees in Ireland were on the minimum wage during this...

Das IAB wurde im Rahmen der Beratung des Sozialausschusses des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtags, zusammen mit dem Wirtschafts- und Finanzausschuss, um seine schriftliche Stellungnahme zu zwei Anträgen gebeten ("Home-Office steuerlich berücksichtigen" - Antrag der Abgeordneten des SSWund...

The study investigated the effect of diversity management on organisational performance in banking industry using some selected deposit money banks in Lagos. The study used a survey research design method, and data were collected from 192 employees of the five selected deposit money banks within...