[HTML][HTML] Firms' ownership, employees' altruism, and product market competition

A De Chiara, E Manna - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper considers profit-maximizing (or private) firms and socially-concerned (or public)
firms that compete against each other on both prices and quality. In this setting, we study …

Friends or foes? Optimal incentives for reciprocal agents

L Livio, A De Chiara - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019 - Elsevier
Widely used performance-based contracts put (positive or negative) externalities on co-
workers. These externalities have been proven to shape an organization's working climate …

Envy manipulation at work

M Caserta, L Ferrante, F Reito - The BE Journal of Theoretical …, 2021 - degruyter.com
We present a simple principal-agent model with an employer and two types of
employees/workers, low and high skilled. Low-skilled workers are envious of their high …

The effects of educational assortative matching on job and marital satisfaction

A Tampieri - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies how the decision to attend university may affect job and marital
satisfaction. We propose a theoretical model with educational assortative matching, where …

Bad NGOs? Competition in the market for donations and workers' misconduct

N Burani, E Manna - UB Economics–Working Papers, 2023 E23/457, 2023 - diposit.ub.edu
In this paper, we investigate how competition among NGOs to attract donations affects the
behavior of NGOs' employees. NGOs hire workers to undertake development projects, which …

Firms' ownership, employees' altruism, and competition

A De Chiara, E Manna - Economic Modelling, 2022, vol. 109, num …, 2022 - diposit.ub.edu
The paper considers profit-maximizing (or private) firms and socially-concerned (or public)
firms that compete against each other on both prices and quality. In this setting, we study …

Better to be in the same boat: Positional envy in the workplace

R Distefano - Available at SSRN 4739144, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
In a simple agency model of the labor market, we examine how fairness concerns affect
labor contracts when workers have different and unobservable abilities. In the framework …

[PDF][PDF] Envy at Work

CC Kitz - netlibrary.aau.at
In an ever-changing world, work environments are becoming increasingly complex and the
mental health of employees is gaining importance, making the study of the influence of …