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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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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …

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Measuring trust : experiments and surveys in contrast and combination

Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments …. Inspired by criticism of the widespread trust question used in many surveys, we created a new, improved survey trust scale … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …

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Item non-response on income and wealth questions

Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002

detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …

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Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys : an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The erosion of union membership in Germany : determinants, densities, decompositions

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2006

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain-Mundlack correlated random effects...

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Exports and firm characteristics in German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is important to guide theorists and policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for goods and services. This paper makes three contributions...

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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits : an econometric analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...

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Subjective well-being and the family : results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does internal locus of control get you out of homelessness?

Budría, Santiago; Betancourt-Odio, Alejandro; Wirth, Eszter - 2023

This paper examines the role of internal locus of control in shaping transitions into homelessness. The data is taken from a longitudinal Australian dataset drawn from a sample of vulnerable individuals. The results, based on a Wooldridge Conditional Maximum Likelihood (WCML) estimator, show...

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