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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the world happiness report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the … Nordics, are not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This suggests …

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How falsifiable is the collective model? : a new test with an application to monogamous and bigamous households in Burkina Faso

Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - 2015

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

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Learning efficiency of economics students

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning … efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance and of continuous preparation of the material. …

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Works councils and collective bargaining in Germany : the impact on productivity and wages

Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001

This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...

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Do market pressures induce economic efficiency : the case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994 - 2001

Orazem, Peter F. (contributor); Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Efficiency in employee-owned enterprises : an econometric case study of Mondragon

Arando, Saioa; Gago, Monica; Jones, Derek Charles; … - 2011

We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … managed firm ; productive efficiency ; Mondragon ; shared capitalism …

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Analyzing cost efficient production behavior under economies of scope : a nonparametric methodology

Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2006

. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …

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Targeting labour market programmes : results from a randomized experiment

Behnke, Stefanie (contributor); Frölich, Markus (contributor) - 2007

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labour market outcome for each...

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Earnings effects of training programs

Lechner, Michael (contributor); Melly, Blaise (contributor) - 2007

In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...

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Does group-based incentive pay lead to higher productivity? : evidence from a complex and interdependent industrial production process

Frederiksen, Anders; Hansen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt; … - 2022

Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using difference-in-difference estimation. Performance...

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