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Service quality in electricity distribution in Brazil : a Malmquist approach
Marinho, Alexandre; Resende, Marcelo - 2016
The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and 2014 based on Malmquist indexes constructed upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) distance functions. The motivation for the less usual consideration of efficiency frontiers for...
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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015
an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518803
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Service offshoring and white-collar employment
Crinò, Rosario (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499534
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International trade and job polarization : evidence at the worker level
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2016
- and low-wage occupations increases but mid-wage occupations decline. With employer-employee matched data on virtually all … workers and firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we use instrumental-variables techniques and a quasi-natural experiment to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499755
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The city paradox : skilled services and remote work
Althoff, Lukas; Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; … - 2020
The large cities in the US are the most expensive places to live. Paradoxically, this cost is disproportionately paid by workers who could work remotely, and live anywhere. The greater potential for remote work in large cities is mostly accounted for by their specialization in skill- and...
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Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Schneider, Frédéric - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138875
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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading
Donati, Dante - 2022
Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...
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Sales performance and social preferences
Essl, Andrea; Bieberstein, Frauke von; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in other-regarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....
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Measuring and bounding experimenter demand
De Quidt, Jonathan; Haushofer, Johannes; Roth, Christopher - 2017 - This version: May 31, 2017
We propose a technique for assessing robustness of behavioral measures and treatment effects to experimenter demand effects. The premise is that by deliberately inducing demand in a structured way we can measure its influence and construct plausible bounds on demand-free behavior. We provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663543
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Adaptive treatment assignment in experiments for policy choice
Kasy, Maximilian; Sautmann, Anja - 2019
experiment with several non-overlapping waves, where the goal is to choose among a set of possible policies (treatments) for …
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