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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Managerial practices and students' performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...

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Modeling immigrants' language skills

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2007

One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...

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The fertility effect of catastrophe : US hurricane births

Evans, Richard W. (contributor); Hu, Yingyao (contributor); … - 2007

For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...

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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida

Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor); … - 2007

Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...

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What explains trends in labor force participation of older men in the United States?

Blau, David (contributor); Goodstein, Ryan (contributor) - 2007

After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time series of cross sections from 1962 to 2005 to model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of...

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Effects of low-skilled immigration on U.S. natives : evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 2008

In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...

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The prevalence and effects of occupational licensing

Kleiner, Morris M. (contributor); … - 2008

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...

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