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Market competition and discrimination
Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020
of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition …This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … competition in the marketplace, do not price discriminate against ethnic minority farmers. A second lab-in-the-field experiment …
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Competitive preferences and ethnicity : experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2017
conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Bangladesh recruiting males from the ethnic majority (Bengali) and an … in preference for interethnic competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641387
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Curbing cream-skimming : evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal (contributor); Kim, Do Han (contributor);  … - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793550
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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution : evidence from performance measures
Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008689037
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Trends in economic research : an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has the recent awareness over international quality standards in economics around the world been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941673
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Performance measurement and incentive intensity
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2015
This study addresses the factors that determine the intensity of pay for performance schemes. The results indicate that the use of individual and group incentives boost intensity, whereas plant or firm pay for performance do not seem to affect the variable of interest. In addition, the adoption...
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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers
Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015
This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347136
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Competitive strategy, performance appraisal and firm results
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2016
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502553
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Effect of private tutoring on university entrance examination performance in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt (contributor); Bircan, Fatma (contributor) - 2005
There is an excess demand for university education in Turkey. Highly competitive university entrance examination which rations the available places at university programs is very central to the lives of young people. In order to increase the chances of success of their children in the university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002816072
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Benchmarking regions : estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
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