Fidan Ana Kurtulus' research lies at the intersection of labor economics and the economics of organizations. Her research explores different aspects of firms' decisions on how to organize their workers and the consequences of these decisions on worker and firm behavior. In particular, she has examined the benefits of team production, the effects of heterogeneity in demographic and skill characteristics within work-groups, and the importance of accounting for the extent of authority which firms delegate to workers in understanding the relationship between production uncertainty and incentive pay.
Articles
An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives and the Delegation of Worker Authority (with Jed DeVaro), Industrial & Labor Relations Review (2007)
Traditionally, researchers have had difficulty testing the relationship between the degree of risk or uncertainty...
Unpublished Papers
An Empirical Analysis of Risk Preferences, Compensation Risk, and Employee Outcomes (with Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi), Economics Department Working Paper Series (2011)
We use the NBER Shared Capitalism Database comprised of more than 40,000 employee surveys from...
What Types of Diversity Benefit Workers? Empirical Evidence on the Effects of Co-Worker Dissimilarity on the Performance of Employees, Economics Department Working Paper Series (2011)
This paper explores the consequences of grouping workers into diverse divisions on the performance of...
Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records (with Donald Tomaskovic‐Devey), Economics Department Working Paper Series (2011)
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of...
Worker Attitudes Towards Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing and Variable Pay (with Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi), Economics Department Working Paper Series (2011)
Using the NBER Shared Capitalism Database comprised of over 40,000 employee surveys from 14 firms,...
Other
An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives, and the Delegation of Worker Authority (with Jed DeVaro), Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] The notion of a negative relationship between risk and incentives is a central prediction...
What Types of Organizations Benefit from Team Production, and How Do They Benefit? (with Jed DeVaro), Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] Using data from a large cross section of British establishments, we ask how different...