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How Do You Find a Good Manager?
Weidmann, Ben; Vecci, Joseph; Said, Farah; Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the …
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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394540
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Big bad banks? : the impact of u.s. branch deregulation on income distribution
Beck, Thorsten - 2007
"Policymakers and economists disagree about the impact of bank regulations on the distribution of income. Exploiting cross-state and cross-time variation, we test whether liberalizing restrictions on intra-state branching in the United States intensified, ameliorated, or had no effect on income...
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Trade protection and industry wage structure in Poland
Goh, Chor-ching - 2005
"This study examines the impact of Poland's trade liberalization 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland's accession to the European Union and was more pronounced in industries with larger shares of unskilled labor. Our analysis...
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A Review of the Philippine Qualifications Framework : Towards Improved Skills Recognition and Mobility
World Bank Group - 2021
The Philippines increasingly emphasizes lifelong learning and skills mobility for labor productivity as an integral part of the country's growth strategy. The Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 presents a series of activities to improve labor productivity through human capital investment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700684
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Palestinian Territories Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2013
World Bank Group - 2015
This report presents a comprehensive diagnostic of the Palestinian Territories' workforce development (WfD) policies and institutions. The analysis is based on a World Bank research tool created under the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative and purposefully designed...
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Teachers in Lebanon Research for Results Program 2021 : Understanding the Quality of Teachers' Instructional Practices and Performance
World Bank Group - 2021
This report presents detailed findings of a teacher performance study in Lebanon, one of four studies carried out under the Research for Results (R4R) program, a partnership between the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education and Development Partners. The objective of the research...
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Georgia Teachers : SABER Country Report 2014
World Bank Group - 2014
Across the globe, the author see increasing interest in attracting, retaining, developing, and motivating great teachers. Student achievement has been found to correlate with economic and social progress. Recent studies have shown that teacher quality is the main school-based predictor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644720
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Guyana Teachers : SABER Country Report 2012
World Bank Group - 2012
A new tool, SABER-teachers, aims to help fill this gap by collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, and disseminating comprehensive information on teacher policies in primary and secondary education systems around the world. SABER-Teachers is a core component of SABER (Systems Approach for Better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644721
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Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017
World Bank Group - 2017
Romania has made considerable progress in recent years towards reducing macroeconomic imbalances. Such reductions, together with monetary policies and structural reforms, either implemented or in progress, have contributed to maintaining macroeconomic and financial stability. After the budget...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644980