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Lorenz Goette
Researcher at University of Bonn
Publications - 102
Citations - 7375
Lorenz Goette is an academic researcher from University of Bonn. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Prosocial behavior. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 101 publications receiving 6677 citations. Previous affiliations of Lorenz Goette include Institute for the Study of Labor & University of Lausanne.
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Cognitive skills affect economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment.
TL;DR: It is suggested that higher CS systematically affect preferences and choices in ways that favor economic success, and in particular, the ability to plan strongly predict perseverance on the job in a setting with a substantial financial penalty for early exit.
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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Lorenz Goette,Lorenz Goette,Lorenz Goette,David Huffman,David Huffman,Stephan Meier,Stephan Meier,Stephan Meier +7 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated whether the social aspect of organizations has an important benefit, fostering unselfish cooperation and norm enforcement within the group, but whether there is also a dark side, in the form of hostility between groups.
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How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
William T. Dickens,William T. Dickens,William T. Dickens,Lorenz Goette,Lorenz Goette,Lorenz Goette,Erica L. Groshen,Erica L. Groshen,Steinar Holden,Steinar Holden,Steinar Holden,Julián Messina,Julián Messina,Mark E. Schweitzer,Jarkko Turunen,Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger +15 more
TL;DR: This paper analyzed individuals' earnings in 31 different data sets from sixteen countries, from which they obtained a total of 360 wage change distributions and found a remarkable amount of variation in wage changes across workers.
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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether the social aspect of organizations has an important benefit, fostering unselfish cooperation and norm enforcement within the group, but also whether there is a dark side, in the form of hostility between groups.
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Do Workers Work More if Wages Are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Ernst Fehr,Lorenz Goette +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a randomized field experiment in a setting in which workers were free to choose their working times and their efforts during working time and found that only loss averse individuals exhibit a significantly negativeneffort response to the wage increase and that the degree of loss aversion predicts the size of the negative effort response.