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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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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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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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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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What does the public know about economic policy, and how does it know it?

Blinder, Alan S. (contributor); Krueger, Alan B. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

-designed survey, we find that most respondents express a strong desire to be well informed on economic policy issues, and that …

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Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health

Lindeboom, Maarten (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

-point shift and index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National Population Health Survey data. The McMaster Health …

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Works councils as gatekeepers : codetermination, monitoring practices, and job satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2023

This paper analyzes the role of works councils as gatekeepers safeguarding employee's interests in the adoption of monitoring practices. We first introduce a formal model predicting that (i) the introduction of monitoring practices leads to a stronger increase (or weaker decrease) in job...

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Duration dependence in finding a job : applications, interviews, and job offers

Zuchuat, Jeremy; Lalive, Rafael; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2023

The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well established fact, the reasons are still disputed. We use monthly search diaries from Swiss public employment offices to shed new light on this issue. Search diaries record all applications sent by job seekers,...

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Gender gaps in financial literacy : a multi-arm RCT to break the response bias in surveys

Hospido, Laura; Iriberri, Nagore; Machelett, Margarita - 2023

not know" more frequently. We test for the effectiveness of three interventions to shift this behavior. The control survey … answers, or inform survey takers of the existing gender gap in choosing this answer option. While all interventions are very …

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Improving survey quality using paradata : lessons from the India Working Survey

Goel, Deepti; Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul - 2022

household survey in India. Our method identifies enumerators exhibiting deviant field practices, and provides them feedback to … that exist within our survey. We also present evidence that our method succeeded in changing actual enumerator behavior in … recommendations to help make more informed choices. We hope our work will encourage the use of paradata to improve survey quality …

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