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The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860
Pritchett, Jonathan B.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703479
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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 … regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial … proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes for a region based on outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279231
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646325
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703622
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763784
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Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives
Courty, Pascal; Kim, Do Han; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566402
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Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study
Praag, Mirjam van; Sloof, Randolph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure. In contrast,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761969
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Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution: An Experimental Investigation
Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557231
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Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case
Krause, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities …. Furthermore, recent evidence concerning long-term consequences of tracking on labor market outcomes suggests that sizeable built …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990917