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Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

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On the effectiveness of elected male and female leaders and team coordination

Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...

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Working hours and productivity

Collewet, Marion; Sauermann, Jan - 2017

performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days …

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Boss competence and worker well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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Third-party vs. second-party control : disentangling the role of autonomy and reciprocity

Burdín, Gabriel; Halliday, Simon D.; Landini, Fabio - 2015

This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....

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Working too much for too little : stochastic rewards cause work addiction

Corgnet, Brice; Gächter, Simon; Hernán González, Roberto - 2020

People are generally assumed to shy away from activities generating stochastic rewards, thus requiring extra compensation for handling any additional risk. In contrast with this view, neuroscience research with animals has shown that stochastic rewards may act as a powerful motivator. Applying...

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Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020

hypothesis that financial and productivity performance is superior in establishments without worker representation is not … favorable regime for financial performance, although this does not carry over to the labor productivity outcome. On net, however …, the evidence suggests that the selected management practices are likely to be favorable to performance in plants with and …

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Inputs, incentives, and self-selection at the workplace

Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...

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The twin track model of employee voice : an Anglo-American perspective on union decline and the rise of alternative forms of voice

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2017

We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...

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Gay glass ceilings : sexual orientation and workplace authority in the UK

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Frank, Jeff; … - 2018

A burgeoning literature has examined earnings inequalities associated with a minority sexual orientation, but far less is known about sexual orientation-based differences in access to workplace authority - in contrast to well-documented gender and race-specific differences. We provide the first...

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