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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703358
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Dann waren’s nur noch vier...Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen
Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
policies in Germany were overhauled considerably. The paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusion … for the future setup of active labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a streamlined repertoire of active … placement vouchers) and calls for a systematic evaluation of all schemes not scrutinized so far. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762166
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Low Pay as an Alternative to Public Direct Job Creation? Lessons from the German Case
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This contribution draws some conclusions from the experience of attempts by the German government at integrating the most vulnerable groups into the labor market, in particular the long-term unemployed and the low skilled. There has been a sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204373
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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886141
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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279310
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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Fritze, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283586
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Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey
McArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Willis, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969335
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Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS
Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition – episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744662
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Mindestlohnevaluation jetzt und nicht erst 2020
Arni, Patrick; Eichhorst, Werner; Spermann, Alexander; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, dass die Grundlagen für eine seriöse Evaluation jetzt und nicht erst im Jahr 2020 gelegt werden müssen. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990912
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884147