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The compositional effect of rigorous teacher evaluation on workforce quality
Cullen, Julie Berry; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric - 2016
Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing information to principals about teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565511
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The next wave of energy innovation : which technologies? Which skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
The costs of low-carbon energy fell dramatically over the past decade, leading to rapid growth in its deployment. However, many challenges remain to deploy low-carbon energy at a scale necessary to meet net zero carbon emission targets. We argue that developing complementary technologies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337365
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Information, uncertainty, and subjective entitlements in bargaining
Karagözoglu, Emin; Riedl, Arno - 2010
More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994177
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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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Delegation and interim performance evaluation
Schütte, Miriam; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2013 - This Version: March 22, 2013
This paper considers the effects of an interim performance evaluation on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Assuming the agents ́outside option to be determined by market beliefs about their type, interim evaluations (a) provide...
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Self-confidence and reactions to subjective performance evaluations
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2018
Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers' level of self-confidence...
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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009
supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850179
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Lame ducks and divided government : how voters control the unaccountable
Schelker, Mark - 2011
The ability of voters to use the available electoral instruments is crucial for the functioning of democracies. The paper shows that voters consider the institutional environment when making electoral decisions. Voters recognize that executives who face binding term limits (i.e., "lame ducks")...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240023
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Political leader survival : does competence matter?
Yu, Shu; Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2013
We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce … presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence is negatively related to political survival, but that the effect is … moderated by the size of the winning coalition. As military and economic competence are negatively correlated, the opposite …
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Restrictive immigration policy in Germany : pains and gains foregone?
Felbermayr, Gabriel (contributor); Geis, Wido (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712536