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Frequent Job Changes Can Signal Poor Work Attitude and Reduce Employability
Cohn, Alain - 2019
tightly controlled laboratory labor market experiment demonstrates that prior employment information allows employers to … field experiment that varies the frequency of job changes in applicants' resumes and find that those with fewer job changes … receive substantially more callbacks from prospective employers. Third, a survey experiment with Human Resources professionals …
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
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Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools
Murphy, Richard - 2020
This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and fifth...
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Competition in Higher Education : A Survey
Kaganovich, Michael - 2020
The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not puzzling features such as the wide spectrum of institutional arrangements and sources of funding, stark segmentation in levels of selectivity and instructional resources, and high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836928
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Airline Alliances and Service Quality
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2018
Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap by...
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Does Your Doctor Matter? Doctor Quality and Patient Outcomes
Ginja, Rita; Riise, Julie; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality in an entire country, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that there is substantial variation in the quality of...
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School Value-Added and Long-Term Student Outcomes
Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2022
Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these differences between schools influence longer-term...
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Customs Compliance and the Power of Imagination
Konrad, Kai A. - 2012
experiment in which underreporting has a higher expected payoff than truthful reporting we find: a large share, about 15 …
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Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217557
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Service offshoring and white-collar employment
Crinò, Rosario - 2007
I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for the U.S.. I present a structural model of the firm's behavior that allows tractable derivation of labor demand elasticities for highly detailed occupations. I estimate the model...
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