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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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documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …
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the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
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It is increasingly common in empirical research to merge data sets containing different units of observation. When the units are not nested, a crosswalk specifying how the units from one data source are allocated to the units of the other is needed. Unfortunately, most crosswalks are ad hoc, a...
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. We use probability theory to derive initial results, including both distribution-independent and distribution … power depend on the configuration of agreements and disagreements; (2) Independence of mind reduces wage inequality, and … cross-context mixtures will display a wide variety of shapes. -- Wage-setter ; power ; consensus ; independence of mind …
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five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces -- justice, status, and power -- and the subsequent …
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given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies … weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in … effect of ideological predispositions and power on the efforts of the interest groups. -- policy formation ; political …
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vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …
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tax imposed on owners of small and medium sized businesses affects their firms' investment and employment decisions …
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