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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...

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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...

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Vom kranken Mann zum Vorbild Europas: Kann Deutschlands Arbeitsmarkt noch vom Ausland lernen?

Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In den letzten zwanzig Jahren hat die Bedeutung internationaler Vergleiche für die Bewertung der Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik deutlich zugenommen. Weniger eindeutig ist jedoch die Frage zu beantworten, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen von ausländischen Erfahrungen für die Gestaltung von...

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Benchmarking Unemployment Benefits in the EU

Stovicek, Klara; Turrini, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper proposes a methodology for benchmarking unemployment benefits systems, with a view to assess reform needs …

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Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Svarer, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Individuals match on length and type of education. We investigate whether the systematic relationship between educations of partners is explained by opportunities (e.g. low search frictions) or preferences (e.g. complementarities in household production or portfolio optimization). We find that...

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Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem?

Blanco, Mariana; Engelmann, Dirk; Koch, Alexander K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

existing belief elicitation results, (ii) can we avoid potential hedging confounds? Our results instill confidence regarding … both issues. We propose an experimental design that eliminates hedging opportunities, and use this to test for the … empirical relevance of hedging effects in the lab. We find no evidence for hedging, comparing the standard “hedging …

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Benchmarking Regions: Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for …

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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...

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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance

Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice.

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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...

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