We interpret workers’ confidence in their own skills as their morale, and investigate the implication of worker overconfidence on the firm’s optimal wage-setting policies. In our model, wage contracts both provide incentives and affect worker morale, by revealing private information of the firm about worker skills. We provide conditions for the non-differentiation wage policy to be profit-maxim...

A. Introduction: MORALE An important consideration in evolutionary design is to understand what drives the need for change. A common driver is a change in the purpose, or mission, of the system. The MORALE2 project focuses on support for such mission-oriented evolution. There is an unexpected symmetry between requirements analysis, software architecture and reverse engineering that can be explo...

This paper studies the evolutions of tax morale in Spain in the post-Franco era. Tax morale, defined as the intrinsic motivation to pay taxes, might be a key determinant of the actual degree of tax compliance in a country. But despite its potential significance, most studies in the previous literature have treated tax morale as an exogenous residual. In contrast to the previous tax compliance l...

Background. Physical education learning in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic has a remarkable impact on students’ creativity. Objectives. This study aims to determine the effect of applying the inquiry and discovery models in online physical education learning to develop high school students’ creativity. Methods. The multiple treatment and control with the pre and post-test procedure were used...