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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living

Cuffe, Harold E.; Harbaugh, William T.; Lindo, Jason M.; … - HAL - 2011

We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …

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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2013

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …

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The success story of a ‘successful?' management device

Dreveton, Benjamin; Rocher, Sébastien - HAL - 2009

This paper deals with the implementation of a management device in a French regional government. Based on a case study, it sets out to describe the stages in the implementation of this management device, from its development by administrative staff to its initial rejection and subsequent...

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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR:

Biot-Paquerot, Guillaume; Rossignol, Jean-Luc - HAL - 2006

Education supply in universities of most European countries has for the last ten years become a strategic matter. At present, French universities consider education supply as an investment. But they do not utilize all incentive mechanisms in order to drive their strategies. At the beginning of...

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Decomposing wage inequality: Public and private sectors in Vietnam 1993-2006

Imbert, Clément - HAL - 2011

This paper studies the labor market in Vietnam during the transition towards market economy (1993-2006): we show that the public-private sector wage gap markedly increased, but that wage inequality decreased overall. Our aim is to assess how much of this evolution can be explained by workers'...

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Threshold of Preference for Collusion and Interconnection Fees in Different Market Structures : the Tunisian Mobile Market Case

Debbichi, Sami; Hichri, Walid - HAL - 2013

We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...

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RELATIONSHIP MARKETING OF SERVICES: AN ANALYSIS OF SERVICE QUALITY AND SERVICE ENCOUNTERS THROUGH RELATIONAL NORMS -A DYADIC APPROACH BETWEEN BANK ACCOUNT MANAGERS AND SMES -

Prim-Allaz, Isabelle - HAL - 1999

The combined pressures of desintermediation, deregulation, and industrial restructuring have helped to redefine the nature and importance of bank-client relationships (Schell, 1996). Directors or treasurers of companies often recognize that their relationship is with the bank account manager,...

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The quality process as a management tool for public transport operators. The example of the EFQM Model through the franchise bidding process in the United Kingdom

Piraux, Jérémy - HAL - 2008

The quality process is a fashionable concept in public transport. Operators try to improve service quality and customer satisfaction, while public authorities impose the implementation of new quality processes in franchise contracts. EFQM differs from other quality models because of its global...

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Service quality planning for freight distribution with time windows in large networks

Deflorio, Francesco P.; Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus; Tadei, … - HAL - 2009

This paper introduces a methodology whose aim is to evaluate how the quality of a freight distribution service with time windows, which operates on a given road network to satisfy a number of requests, affects the total cost of the distribution service . The result of a service quality setting,...

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Internal marketing as a new alternative for the service employees' performance: an empirical study

Bellaouaied, Myriam; Gam, Abdelkader - HAL - 2011

The increasing importance of relational marketing in the service sector as underlined by several authors and particularly by Berry (1983) culminates in a new marketing orientation toward internal marketing, even suggesting a significant impact of the latter on service quality perception. Several...

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