Abstract This chapter takes as its point of departure the design elements Norwegian parental leave system for fathers and examines how it works a regulatory measure to promote equality in care work. The findings show that father’s quota statutory, earmarked, non-transferrable right promotes fathers’ use hence equality. earmarking, fact cannot be transferred mother, renders unnecessary negotiate...

We present evidence on the causes and consequences of workers’ social ties in the workplace on individual and firm performance. To do so, we combine firm personnel records on individual productivity with a survey we administered to workers to identify their social network of friends within the firm. Our findings indicate there are social incentives — the presence of friends affects worker’s beh...

This paper investigates the effect of performance feedback on productivity in a company where workers operate in teams and receive a bonus that depends on both individual worker and team productivity. To address this issue, we employ weekly productivity and administrative data obtained from the customer service centre of an insurance company. We find evidence that performance feedback given eac...

INTRODUCTION An economically mature health care market has led to increased cost competition. Subsequently, a perceived need for productivity-based physician compensation has developed. While some institutions have rewarded individual productivity based on specific facets of academic responsibility, such as teaching, research, and patient care, we chose to develop an incentive compensation syst...

This study is intended to underline the importance of the role played by the cross-industry allocation of R&D resources, as indicated by several indices measuring R&D inequality, within the manufacturing industries of each country, and how it determines cross-country productivity growth. In other words, the main debate is whether national R&D policies for promoting productivity growth should be...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to reveal the association between airflow limitation (AL) severity and reduction with work productivity as well as use of sick leave among Japanese workers. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 1,378 workers who underwent a lung function test during a health checkup at the Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Health Care Center. AL was defined as forced expi...