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Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Trotz des beachtlichen personellen und finanziellen Aufwands, der in der Bundesrepublik für die Durchführung arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen betrieben wird, ist ihr Erfolg in keiner Weise gesichert. Im Gegenteil, die bisherige Evaluierungspraxis verletzt nahezu durchgängig eine der...

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Evaluating Continuous Training ProgramsUsing the Generalized Propensity Score

Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the durationof training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that theamount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). Thisfeature allows us to...

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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen

Büttner, Thiess - 2002

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Do well managed firms make better forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - 2022

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Firms' ethics, consumer boycotts, and signalling

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....

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Animal welfare and human ethics : a personality study

Albrecht, Konstanze; Krämer, Marius-Florentin; Szech, Nora - 2017

We elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct and real setup that allows us to separate genuine interest in animal welfare from confounding factors like advertisement, replacement arguments or image concerns. Subjects choose between intensive farming and organic living...

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The (in)elasticity of moral ignorance

Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2019

We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find significant...

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Socially responsible investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States : an analysis of investment funds and indices

Schröder, Michael - 2003

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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