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Subjective Performance Evaluation and Inequality Aversion
Grund, Christian; Przemeck, Judith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Many firms use subjective performance appraisal systems due to lack of objective performance measures. In these cases, supervisors usually have to rate the performance of their subordinates. Using such systems, it is a well established fact that many supervisors tend to assess the employees too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761878
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Individual and Job-Based Determinants of Performance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and also explore the impact of PA on performance pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761915
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Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK
Clark, Ken; Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and labour market outcomes are also analysed, including how these relate to changes in the economy and migration policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959839
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294836
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How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Impact Unauthorized Immigrants?
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Puttitanun, Thitima; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact of such measures on the migration experience, trajectory and future plans of unauthorized immigrants. In a recent and unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed...
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Optimal Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker, or Mode IV?
Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
share of migrants’ income whose payment is deferred. The maximization also takes into account the impact of the policy on … solves for the policy measures, the overstaying probability, and the level of illegal migration. The paper concludes that the … optimal policy is a combination of Mode IV-type and permanent migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703529
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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment determined as equilibrium phenomena? What...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822179
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Climbing the Drug Staircase: A Bayesian Analysis of the Initiation of Hard Drug Use
Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Jacobi, Liana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
been influential in formulating a strict drug policy in many western countries. Individual differences in proneness and … different policy implications. We propose a Bayesian estimation and predictive framework to analyze the effects and relative … importance of previous cannabis use, proneness and accessibility factors on hard drug initiation and to explore potential policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822523
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Skill Policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822555
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822742