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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences

Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018

We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Retrospective data from the SHARELIFE survey are used to reconstruct labour market experiences across the threshold...

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Economic consequences of political persecution

Bohacek, Radim; Myck, Michał - 2017

We analyze the effects of persecution and labor market discrimination during the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia using a representative life history sample from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We find strong effects of persecution and dispossession on...

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Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits : do they work? ; if so, at what level do they work best?

Spencer, Marilyn K.; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015

This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and … the United States, we study the impact of this employee benefit on faculty and staff performance and retention. We focus … results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or …

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Job satisfaction and employee turnover : a firm-level perspective

Frederiksen, Anders - 2015

In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...

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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success

Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016

Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the impact of such programs, and the factors that influence...

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Exit, voice or loyalty? : an investigation into mandated portability of front-loaded private health plans

Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017

We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...

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The effect of grade retention on secondary school performance : evidence from a natural experiment

Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; … - 2018

We study the effects of grade retention on secondary school performance by considering a change in Colombia's educative …' retention rates in a difference-in-differences framework, we find that retained (marginally non-retained) students improve … (decline) their performance on language but not on math test scores. We suggest the school's position in the retention …

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Teacher preferences, working conditions, and compensation structure

Johnston, Andrew - 2020

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing …

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School quality beyond test scores : the role of schools in shaping educational outcomes

Loviglio, Annalisa - 2023

I study how schools impact student performance and educational attainment throughout secondary education, and show that school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I...

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Trend-spotting in the housing market

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...

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