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Organization and information in the fight against crime : an evaluation of the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Souza, Igor Viveiros de - 2010
property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. -- crime ; police …
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Police disruption and performance : evidence from recurrent redeployments within a city
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2015
between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police … that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472494
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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved. …
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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective
Frick, Joachim R. (contributor);  … - 2007
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561621
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Measuring trust : experiments and surveys in contrast and combination
Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829721
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Item non-response on income and wealth questions
Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002
After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413300
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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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Educational diversity and knowledge transfers via inter-firm labor mobility
Marino, Marianna; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - 2014
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
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Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412907
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …
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