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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278945
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Bonus payments and reference point violations
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941775
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Education research and administrative data
Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 5
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
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The performance of performance standards
Heckman, James J.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412037
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Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market
Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2011
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259480
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Unions and the labor market for managers
DiNardo, John E.; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333286
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Do women in highly qualified positions face higher work-to-family conflicts in Germany than men?
Busch-Heizmann, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2017
opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …
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The inflation expectations of U.S. firms: evidence from a new survey
Candia, Bernardo; Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2021
"anchored" expectations, the inflation expectations of U.S. managers appear far from anchored, much like those of households …. And like households, U.S. managers are largely uninformed about recent aggregate inflation dynamics or monetary policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518200
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Leadership skills and wages
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
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The promotion dynamics of American executives
Belzil, Christian (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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