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Women political leaders, corruption and learning : evidence from a large public program in India
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M. R. - 2013
India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … reservations ; gender ; NREGA ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715011
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Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India's informal sector firms
Gang, Ira N.; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative … what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314972
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Caste, courts and business
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani; … - 2022
We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806063
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Aggregate implications of barriers to female entrepreneurship
Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2024
We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for …, policies promoting female entrepreneurship can significantly increase female LFP even without explicitly targeting female LFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062027
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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323166
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Information, uncertainty, and subjective entitlements in bargaining
Karagözoğlu, Emin; Riedl, Arno - 2010
More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779187
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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier : the context and design of the truckers and turnover project
Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594442
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Performance pay, sorting, and outsourcing
Henneberger, Fred (contributor);  … - 2007
Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539338
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539340
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The determinants of performance appraisal systems : a note (do Brown and Heywood's results for Australia hold up for Britain?)
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between our two datasets - the AWIRS and the WERS - we reach one central point of agreement and one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561630