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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 …
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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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Subjective performance evaluations and employee careers
Frederiksen, Anders; Lange, Fabian; Kriechel, Ben - 2012
Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
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Supervisors and performance management systems
Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 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...
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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...
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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey : seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results
Lozano, Fernando (contributor); Sorensen, Todd (contributor) - 2008
Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652678
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Experimental tests of survey responses to expenditure questions
Comerford, David; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2009
This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the … features of survey design influence expenditure reports. We find that over one quarter of respondents have difficulty … survey question. It is crucial to further account for these features in ongoing surveys. -- Expenditure surveys ; survey …
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Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? : results from a survey experiment in Tanzania
Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; … - 2010
survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938170
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The analytical returns to measuring a detailed household roster
Akresh, Richard; Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010
Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...
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