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We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job-based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and also explore the impact of PA on performance pay and further career prospects. The results include that PA is positively linked to an individual's willingness ...
In:
International Journal of Human Resource Management
20 (2009), 10, 2049-2065
| Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka
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Making use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and substantial negative impact on the probability that an employee's pay is performance contingent, which confirms the well known risk-incentive trade-off.
In:
Economics Letters
106 (2010), 1, 8-11
| Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka
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Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual employee. We find that works councils tend to promote rather than restrict PA. Employees working in establishments ...
Bonn:
IZA Institute of Labor Economics,
2019,
(IZA DP No. 12670)
| Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka, Krystina Titz
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The intention of “doing good for society” is regarded to be a crucial motivator for employees in the public sector in order for them to perform well. Recent research in the public sector literature calls for a deeper understanding of how this specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public sector matter for PSM. We investigate ...
In:
Schmalenbach Business Review
18 (2017), 4, 377-398
| Christian Grund, Kirsten Thommes
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The aim of the paper is to analyse differences in the labour force participation (LFP) between East and West German women. Using microcensus data in a binary choice model, we distinguish three main explanations for these differences: the skill composition, the regional labour market and childcare availability. As LFP in-creases in the skill-level, the larger share of high-skilled women in East Germany ...
Munich:
Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich,
2008,
(Ifo Working Paper No. 56)
| Beate Grundig
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This article tackles the question of how, on the one hand, the high life expectancy and, on the other, the increasing age of mothers at childbirth will impact the joint lifetime of three and four generations and will develop in future. To this end, indicators are derived from the official data on mortality and fertility for the mean joint lifetimes of three- and four-generation families. Because of ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft
36 (2011), 1, 41-76
| Evelyn Grünheid, Manfred G. Scharein
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that the perception of the individual employment status depends on the surrounding unemployment rate. We argue ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 638)
| Martina Grunow
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While risk selection within the German public health insurance system has received considerable attention, risk selection between public and private health insurers has largely been ignored. This is surprising since - given the institutional structure - risk selection between systems is likely to be more pronounced. We find clear evidence for risk selection in favor of private insurers. While private ...
In:
Health Economics
23 (2014), 6, 670-687
| Martina Grunow, Robert Nuscheler
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I study the forced right-hand writing of left-handed children (switching) as a case where social norms motivate parents to invest in their children. While the previous literature has found that left-handers obtain less human capital and lower wages than right-handers, due to innate cognitive deficits, I find that switched lefthanders actually perform equally well or even better than right-handers in ...
In:
Labour Economics
56 (2019), January 2019, 44-57
| Raphael Guber
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To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust equilibrium. In this context, a temporary ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
6 (2008), 2-3, 295-320
| Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales