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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

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

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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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

Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...

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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, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...

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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Weichselbaumer, Doris; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...

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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom

Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

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Entrepreneurial Couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam C. van; Thompson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

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Run for Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance

Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …

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Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence

Frederiksen, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings...

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Analysis of Pay Inequality and its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Kim, Yunhee; Lee, Jeong-Dong; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality … relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector …

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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

competitiveness of the environment and there is no significant difference in performance in the real-effort task across the …

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