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December 4, 2020

How working-time flexibility affects workers’ productivity in a routine job

Field experiment shows positive effects of allowing greater autonomy at work

  • autonomy
  • Colombia
  • field experiment
  • flexibility
  • part-time
  • productivity
  • routine
  • working time
  • Ana Maria Diaz
  • Bart Cockx
  • Luz Magdalena Salas
  • Marie Boltz
Research

April 23, 2020

Helping job seekers online

COVID-19 increases joblessness but also prevents the provision of face-to-face employment assistance

  • Australia
  • COVID-19
  • field experiment
  • job search
  • labor market policy
  • online services
  • unemployment
  • Giulio Zanella
  • Guglielmo Briscese
  • Veronica Quinn
Research

November 20, 2019

Why don’t we sleep enough?

Field experiment explores the role of behavioral biases in sleep choice and shows that monetary incentives work

  • behavior
  • commitment
  • field experiment
  • habits
  • overconfidence
  • self-control
  • sleep
  • Mallory Avery
  • Osea Giuntella
  • Peiran Jiao
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August 6, 2019

Talk about performance – or pay for it?

Bonus payments may undermine the positive effects of performance reviews

  • feedback
  • field experiment
  • incentives
  • management practices
  • monitoring
  • performance pay
  • performance review
  • Dirk Sliwka
  • Kathrin Manthei
  • Timo Vogelsang
Research

December 3, 2018

Wheelchair users face considerable discrimination in the labor market

Disability reduced callback rates by 50% in a field experiment

  • disability
  • field experiment
  • job applications
  • labor market discrimination
  • persons with disabilities
  • Charles Bellemare
  • Guy Lacroix
  • Marion Goussé
  • Steeve Marchand
Research

March 15, 2018

The impact of self-selection on performance

Our behavior is strongly influenced by comparisons with others. These “others” are not usually assigned to us, but we choose […]

  • choice
  • experiment
  • field experiment
  • motivation
  • peer effects
  • performance
  • preferences
  • self-selection
  • Jonas Radbruch
  • Lukas Kießling
  • Sebastian Schaube
Research

September 20, 2016

Discrimination against female migrants wearing a headscarf

Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. Their labor market integration is a crucial policy goal. However, […]

  • callback
  • correspondence study
  • discrimination
  • field experiment
  • headscarf
  • hiring
  • job applications
  • Muslim
  • resume
  • Turkish
  • Doris Weichselbaumer
Research

September 2, 2014

Using employee recognition to boost productivity

Good bosses know that recognition and words of appreciation are key tools to motivate employes and increase productivity. But what […]

  • effort
  • employees
  • field experiment
  • motivation
  • performance
  • recognition
  • reward
  • Arjan Non
  • Christiane Bradler
  • Robert Dur
  • Susanne Neckermann
Research

July 11, 2014

Having a successful start-up: How your team should be composed

Entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation and technological change. And as standard macro theory suggests, these are main drivers […]

  • children
  • entrepreneurship
  • field experiment
  • generalist
  • Netherlands
  • school
  • skill
  • specialist
  • start-ups
  • team
  • Laura Rosendahl Huber
  • Mirjam C. van Praag
  • Randolph Sloof
Research

April 25, 2014

How to make your employees creative – evidence from a field experiment

As globalization increases the need to continuously improve and adapt to new technology and changing competition, many companies are seeking […]

  • creativity
  • employees
  • field experiment
  • ideas
  • innovation
  • motivation
  • personnel economics
  • Christoph Siemroth
  • Michael Gibbs
  • Susanne Neckermann
Research

April 14, 2014

Knowing that you matter, matters: the luck of having a meaningful job

What if somebody told you that your job was completely irrelevant and useless? Would you still work with the same […]

  • China
  • field experiment
  • meaning
  • monetary incentives
  • motivation
  • performance
  • recognition
  • student
  • Michael Kosfeld
  • Susanne Neckermann
  • Xiaolan Yang
Research

December 20, 2013

Women are not scared of competing with males, field experiment shows

Despite increasing female labor market participation, gender differences in labor market outcomes persist: men earn more, have better employment perspectives […]

  • competition
  • employment
  • exam
  • field experiment
  • gender differences
  • student
  • university
  • women
  • Francesca Gioia
  • Maria De Paola
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

November 4, 2013

Persuading mothers to work: results from an experiment

Many women see themselves as the better providers of care for their children, and thus refrain from delegating child care. […]

  • child care
  • female labor supply
  • field experiment
  • Italy
  • maternal leave
  • wage
  • women
  • Chiara D. Pronzato
  • Francesco C. Billari
  • Paola Profeta
  • Vincenzo Galasso
Research

November 1, 2013

How to manage the quality-quantity tradeoff

A commonly acknowledged problem in running a business is that the more that is produced, the lower the quality due […]

  • costs
  • field experiment
  • monitoring
  • production
  • productivity
  • quality-quantity tradeoff
  • worker selection
  • John S. Heywood
  • W. Stanley Siebert
  • Xiangdong Wei
Research

October 25, 2013

Relative bonus payment schemes do not increase performance

Many firms run employee-of-the-month or job promotion contests. Stock brokers get additional money if they beat the index. Bonus payment […]

  • bonus payment
  • effort
  • field experiment
  • Netherlands
  • performance
  • work incentives
  • Arjan Non
  • Josse Delfgaauw
  • Robert Dur
  • Willem Verbeke
Research

July 22, 2013

Men vote for Mars, women vote for Venus

A new IZA discussion paper by Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini investigates whether the degree of aggressiveness of political campaigns […]

  • election
  • electoral campaign
  • field experiment
  • gender differences
  • Italy
  • political economy
  • politician
  • turnout
  • Tommaso Nannicini
  • Vincenzo Galasso
Research

July 15, 2013

Munich discriminates against lesbians, Berlin does not

Are lesbians subject to labor market discrimination? And can they avoid discrimination by adopting a more conventional lifestyle such as […]

  • applications
  • discrimination
  • field experiment
  • labor market discrimination
  • same-sex marriage
  • sexual orientation
  • Doris Weichselbaumer
Research

June 24, 2013

Do people discriminate others or favor their ownkind?

Discrimination is omnipresent in today’s labor markets: women receive lower wages, foreigner are less likely to be hired. While the […]

  • class room
  • discrimination
  • favoritism
  • field experiment
  • grading
  • labor market
  • Maastricht University
  • Netherlands
  • university
  • Daniel S. Hamermesh
  • Jan Feld
  • Nicolas Salamanca

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