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Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …

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Principals as agents? : Investigating accountability in the compensation and performance of school principals

Billger, Sherrilyn M. (contributor) - 2007

In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and school performance. Though such incentives and standards are increasingly common, the existing...

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Can gifted and talented education raise the academic achievement of all high-achieving students?

Booij, Adam S.; Haan, Ferry; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2017

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted and talented (GT) program with selective program admission based on past achievement. We construct three complementary estimates of the program's impact on student achievement....

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Bonus payments and reference point violations

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010

We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …

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Unions and the labor market for managers

DiNardo, John E.; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …

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Training background and early retirement

Montizaan, Raymond (contributor); … - 2008

Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...

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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants : a special case

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2008

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...

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Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants : a comparative analysis of Australian and US employment immigration

Jasso, Guillermina (contributor); … - 2008

This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main determinants of the size and skill composition of employment immigrants to developed countries. Our approach emphasizes the key roles of world prices of skills and country proximity. Our...

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The economics of language : an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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Effects of low-skilled immigration on U.S. natives : evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 2008

In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...

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