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Who Do We Tip and Why? An Empirical Investigation

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2005

An important question about social norms is whether they are created to increase welfare; I address it by examining the characteristics of tipped and non-tipped occupations. Tipping prevalence is negatively correlated with worker’s income and consumer’s monitoring ability and positively with...

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Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom

Ilmolelian, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education/training …

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to … identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on training participation, and the effect of training participation on … wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …

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Work arrangements on large capital city building projects

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

The study examines the relationship between work arrangements and workplace performance on large capital building sites.

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The role of training and innovation in workplace performance

Laplagne, Patrick; Bensted, Leonie - EconWPA - 2002

which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity …

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A stock-flow matching approach to evaluation of public training program in a high unemployment environment

Dmitrijeva, Jekaterina; Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

significant role. We find positive and significant effect of training programs on outflows from unemployment to employment, thus … providing strong evidence against recent cuts in training expenditures. …

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the intergenerational transmission of human capital: the case of heterogenous families

HLAIMI, Boubaker - EconWPA - 2005

results of elder, the parents modify their educational choices or of training of the juniors being given the returns and the …

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Human Capital in Transitional Russia

Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002

This paper applies parametric and nonparametric techniques to the most recent data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) 1992- 2000 and shows the returns to schooling increased over the course of transition, overall and for attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the...

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Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration

Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyzes some of the implications of North American labor market integration for fiscal policy. The economies of Canada and the US are both characterized by highly integrated internal markets for goods and services as well as for labor and capital, and subnational governments in both...

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The Three Capitals of Pricing – Human, Systems and Social Capital

Ritson, Mark; Zbaracki, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we explore the possibility, heretofore unexplored in the marketing literature, that firms “invest funds” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this we undertook a two-year, cross- disciplinary,...

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