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role of female managers in closing the GWG is more pronounced when employees are paid for performance, consistent with the … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …
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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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Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
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. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of … associated errors. Using within-player comparisons, we find a statistically and economically significant decrease in performance …
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We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in … attendance size and performance. Our results confirm a sizeable and strong negative effect of the number of spectators on … performance. Home teams in (non-critical) situations at the beginning of games perform worse when the audience is larger. This …
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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...
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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
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has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …
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We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of workers with well-matched skills to their job duties....
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) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We contribute to this literature by exploiting linked … characterizes 'high performance work systems' (HWPS) and 'strategic human resource management' (SHRM). Although the HPWS effect on …
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