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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable … centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data

Hethey-Maier, Tanja; Schmieder, Johannes F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets … which is not present for ID changes. …

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long … across plants, we find that labor strife at the Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Monthly data …

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Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have …

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Maternal Autonomy and the Education of the Subsequent Generation: Evidence from Three Contrasting States in India

Alfano, Marco; Arulampalam, Wiji; Kambhampati, Uma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper makes a significant contribution on both conceptual and methodological fronts, in the analysis of the effect of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time duration model where maternal autonomy is entered as a...

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International Human Trafficking: Measuring Clandestinity by the Structural Equation Approach

Rudolph, Alexandra; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

account for the unobservable nature of the crime as well as for visible aspects that both shape the extent of it. By including …

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