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This study aims to enrich the current literature by providing a new approach to motivating Generation Z employees in Poland. Employees need to be motivated in order to be efficient at doing a particular task at the workplace. As young…

General Economics · Economics 2022-10-27 Joanna Nieżurawska , Radosław A. Kycia , Iveta Ludviga , Agnieszka Niemczynowicz

In this paper we investigate potential changes which may have occurred over the last two decades in the probability mass of the right tail of the wage distribution, through the analysis of the corresponding tail index. In specific, a…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-04-28 João Nicolau , Pedro Raposo , Paulo M. M. Rodrigues

The ubiquity of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in work settings has changed the way employees behave. ICTs such as smartphones, email and social media makes employees more connected than has ever been possible. The degree…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Balsam Al-Dabbagh , Eusebio Scornavacca , Allan Sylvester , David Johnstone

We examine the impact of annual hours worked on annual earnings by decomposing changes in the real annual earnings distribution into composition, structural and hours effects. We do so via a nonseparable simultaneous model of hours, wages…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-11-19 Iván Fernández-Val , Franco Peracchi , Aico van Vuuren , Francis Vella

Recent studies have found evidence of a negative association between economic complexity and inequality at the country level. Moreover, evidence suggests that sophisticated economies tend to outsource products that are less desirable (e.g.…

General Economics · Economics 2022-06-08 Dominik Hartmann , Flavio L. Pinheiro

Incorporating fresh members in teams is considered a pathway to team creativity. However, whether freshness improves team performance or not remains unclear, as well as the optimal involvement of fresh members for team performance. This…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Meijun Liu , Ajay Jaiswal , Yi Bu , Chao Min , Sijie Yang , Zhibo Liu , Daniel Daniel Acuña , Ying Ding

This paper explores various socioeconomic factors that contribute to individual financial success using machine learning algorithms and approaches. Financial success, a critical aspect of all individual's well-being, is a complex concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Michael Zhou , Ramin Ramezani

Fair machine learning is receiving an increasing attention in machine learning fields. Researchers in fair learning have developed correlation or association-based measures such as demographic disparity, mistreatment disparity, calibration,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Wen Huang , Yongkai Wu , Lu Zhang , Xintao Wu

This paper develops a unified framework for evaluating the optimal degree of task automation. Moving beyond binary automate-or-not assessments, we model automation intensity as a continuous choice in which firms minimize costs by selecting…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-01 Wensu Li , Atin Aboutorabi , Harry Lyu , Kaizhi Qian , Martin Fleming , Brian C. Goehring , Neil Thompson

Ranking and scoring are ubiquitous. We consider the setting in which an institution, called a ranker, evaluates a set of individuals based on demographic, behavioral or other characteristics. The final output is a ranking that represents…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Ke Yang , Julia Stoyanovich

This empirical investigation elucidates the limitations of deterministic, unidimensional productivity heuristics by operationalizing the SPACE framework through extensive repository mining. Utilizing a dataset derived from open-source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Sanchit Kaul , Kevin Nhu , Jason Eissayou , Ivan Eser , Victor Borup

We consider the problem of assigning tasks efficiently to a set of workers that can exhaust themselves as a result of processing tasks. If a worker is exhausted, it will take a longer time to recover. To model efficiency of workers with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Elif Beray Sariisik , Melih Bastopcu , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

This paper is part of the Global Income Dynamics Project cross-country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure…

General Economics · Economics 2021-12-14 Kevin L. McKinney , John M. Abowd , Hubert P. Janicki

Many definitions of business processes refer to business goals, value creation, or profits/gains of sorts. Nevertheless, the focus of formal methods research on business processes, like the well-known soundness property, lies on correctness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Tobias Heindel , Ingo Weber

Recent advances in generative AI systems have dramatically reduced the cost of digital production, fueling narratives that widespread participation in software creation will yield a proliferation of viable companies. This paper challenges…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-27 Armin Catovic

The manufacturing sector is envisioned to be heavily influenced by artificial intelligence-based technologies with the extraordinary increases in computational power and data volumes. A central challenge in manufacturing sector lies in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Ye Yuan , Guijun Ma , Cheng Cheng , Beitong Zhou , Huan Zhao , Hai-Tao Zhang , Han Ding

Labor productivity was studied at the microscopic level in terms of distributions based on individual firm financial data from Japan and the US. A power-law distribution in terms of firms and sector productivity was found in both countries'…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-13 Yuichi Ikeda , Wataru Souma

Most organizations rely on managers to identify talented workers. However, managers who are evaluated on team performance have an incentive to hoard workers. This study provides the first empirical evidence of talent hoarding using…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-22 Ingrid Haegele

In this paper, I present a visual representation of the relationship between mean hourly total compensation divided by per-capita GDP, hours worked per capita, and the labor share, and show the represented labor equilibrium equation is the…

General Economics · Economics 2020-12-04 John R. Moser

Fatigue is a broad, multifactorial concept that includes the subjective perception of reduced physical and mental energy levels. It is also one of the key factors that strongly affect patients' health-related quality of life. To date, most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yang Bai , Yu Guan , Jian Qing Shi , Wan-Fai Ng