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This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and … the United States, we study the impact of this employee benefit on faculty and staff performance and retention. We focus … results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or …
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In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation …
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than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in … recent years. -- Employment ; unemployment ; self-employment ; life satisfaction ; job quality ; job satisfaction …
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Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the impact of such programs, and the factors that influence...
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We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...
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We study the effects of grade retention on secondary school performance by considering a change in Colombia's educative …' retention rates in a difference-in-differences framework, we find that retained (marginally non-retained) students improve … (decline) their performance on language but not on math test scores. We suggest the school's position in the retention …
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Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing …
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I study how schools impact student performance and educational attainment throughout secondary education, and show that school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I...
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We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …
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) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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