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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
Blau, Francine D. - 2006
Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466344
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Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists
Rauber, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German academic economists, we first show that research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301129
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455330
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What Do Performance Appraisals Do?
Cappelli, Peter - 2016
This paper investigates employee performance appraisals using data from a single US firm between 2001 and 2007. We find that performance appraisals are both informative and drive important components of the employment contract. We find that employee appraisal scores vary considerably both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456279
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The information content of capacity utilisation rates for output gap estimates
Graff, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2010
to 2009. We show that the real-time output gaps are informationally inefficient in the sense that survey data available …. -- output gap ; capacity utilisation ; real-time analysis ; survey data ; survey data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008797779
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Vignette equivalence and response consistency : the case of job satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383456
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Survey Experiments on Economic Expectations
Fuster, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
experiments within surveys, rather than just relying on observational survey data. We then outline the most commonly used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938719
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Talk or text? : evaluating response rates by remote survey method during Covid-19
Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Domínguez, Patricio; … - 2022
-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in El Salvador to survey using two different tools: telephone … interviews or a self-completion survey via WhatsApp. We find that phone-based surveys increase the rate of survey completion by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798208
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Missing Top Income Recipients
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
welfare. An appropriately weighted survey-based distribution of an acceptable measure of economic welfare need not be less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585374
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What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such … respondent's degree of cooperation with the survey overall. We provide evidence on how survey design choices affect reporting … errors. Our findings help survey users to gauge the reliability of their data and to devise estimation strategies that can …
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