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Flexibility and Job Creation : Lessons for Germany
Heckman, James J. - 2002
affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German …
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What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the JTPA Program
Heckman, James J. - 1996
Bureaucratic performance standards are featured in many proposals to increase efficiency in government. These standards reward bureaucrats on the basis of measured outcomes. The performance standards system created under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982 is often cited as a...
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Evaluation of the College Possible Program : Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Avery, Christopher - 2013
This paper reports the results of a randomized trial of the College Possible program, which provides two years of college preparatory work for high school juniors and seniors in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The trial involved 238 students, including 134 who were randomly selected for admission to...
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College Students and Career Aspirations : Nudging Student Interest in Teaching
Christian, Alvin; Ronfeldt, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We survey undergraduate students at a large public university to understand the pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors driving their college major and career decisions with a focus on K-12 teaching. While the average student reports there is a 6% chance they will pursue teaching, almost 27% report...
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EU Accession and Foreign Owned Firms in Bulgaria
Feliciano, Zadia M. - 2016
Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …
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Social Security Incentives for Retirement
Coile, Courtney - 2000
We present a detailed analysis of the incentives that Social Security provides for continued work at older ages. We do …
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Output-based Pay : Incentives or Sorting?
Lazear, Edward P. - 1999
of the typical American firm. Variable pay is usually touted as a way to provide incentives to managers whose interests …
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Incentive Effects of Social Security Under an Uncertain Disability Option
Boersch-Supan, Axel - 1999
Incentive effects of pension systems are usually estimated under the assumption that the institutional environment provides a single optimal 'pathway' for retirement. However, many countries provide competing pathways which may include several early retirement options in addition to normal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471445
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Empire-Builders and Shirkers : Investment, Firm Performance, and Managerial Incentives
Aggarwal, Rajesh K. - 1999
underinvestment problem. We derive comparative static predictions for the equilibrium relationships between incentives from … compensation, investment, and firm performance for both cases. The relationship between firm performance and managerial incentives … to identify whether managers have private benefits or costs, we estimate the joint relationships between incentives and …
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Reconsidering Contractual Liability and the Incentive to Reveal Information
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1999
In an earlier work, we analyzed how the legal rules governing contractual liability affect the transfer of information between the parties to the contract. In particular, we showed how limitations on contractual liability might lead high valuation buyers to reveal their valuation of performance,...
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