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Explaining transactions in time banks in economic crisis
Carnero, M. Angeles; Martínez, Blanca; … - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 7/9, pp. 739-744
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Does the yield spread retain its forecasting ability during the 2007 recession? : a comparative analysis
Evgenidis, Anastasios; Siriopoulos, Costas - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 10/12, pp. 817-822
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Examining the relationship between academic performance and workplace position : does the glass ceiling exist among graduates from the same university?
Beaudin, Laura - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 4, pp. 286-289
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Individual and job based determinants of performance appraisal : evidence from Germany
Grund, Christian (contributor); Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2007
We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and also explore the impact of PA on performance pay...
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Subjective performance evaluations and employee careers
Frederiksen, Anders; Lange, Fabian; Kriechel, Ben - 2012
Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
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Risk-taking in subjective promotion tournaments
Kwon, Illoong - In: Applied economics letters 20 (2013) 13/15, pp. 1238-1243
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Supervisors and performance management systems
Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2017
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey : seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results
Lozano, Fernando (contributor); Sorensen, Todd (contributor) - 2008
Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a …
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Experimental tests of survey responses to expenditure questions
Comerford, David; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2009
This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the … features of survey design influence expenditure reports. We find that over one quarter of respondents have difficulty … survey question. It is crucial to further account for these features in ongoing surveys. -- Expenditure surveys ; survey …
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Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? : results from a survey experiment in Tanzania
Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; … - 2010
survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …
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