Shining with the stars: Competition, screening, and concern for coworkers' quality.

Autor/inn/en	Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth
Titel	Shining with the stars: Competition, screening, and concern for coworkers' quality. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Mit den Stars glänzen: Wettbewerb, Screening und die Sorge um die Qualität der Arbeitskollegen.
Quelle	In: Games and economic behavior, (2024) 144, S. 250-283 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-2473
DOI	10.1016/j.geb.2024.01.014
Schlagwörter	Image; Leistungsfähigkeit; Determinante; Personalauswahl; Personalbeschaffung; Produktivität; Unternehmen; Wettbewerb; Arbeitsplatzwahl; Arbeitsproduktivität; Berufschance; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsstruktur; Auswirkung; Arbeitnehmer
Abstract	"We study how workers' concern for coworkers' ability (CfCA) affects competition in the labor market. Two firms offer nonlinear contracts to a unit mass of prospective workers. Firms may differ in their marginal productivity, while workers are heterogeneous in their ability (high or low) and their taste for being employed by any of the two firms. Workers receive a utility premium when employed by the firm hiring most high-ability workers and suffer a utility loss if hired by its competitor. These premiums/losses are endogenously determined.We characterize contracts and workers' sorting into the two firms under complete and private information on workers' ability. We show that CfCA is detrimental to firms, but it benefits high-ability workers, especially when their ability is observable. In addition, CfCA exacerbates the existing distortion in high-ability workers' sorting into the two firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/3