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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders - 2017
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers
Frederiksen, Anders - 2012
Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
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Contingent valuation: a new perspective
Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
valuation surveys. The first hypothesis is that survey respondents are unable to form consistent preferences about unfamiliar …. Theory and evidence suggest that this new survey paradigm largely eliminates the fundamental problems of the conventional … ; preference formation ; referendum ; stated preferences ; survey methodology ; validity ; voting behavior …
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Do constructed-response and multiple-choice questions measure the same thing?
Hickson, Stephen; Reed, W. Robert - 2009
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Using surveys to compare the public's and decisionmakers' preferences for urban regeneration : the Venice Arsenale
Alberini, Anna (contributor); Longo, Alberto (contributor);  … - 2006
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Applications and interviews : a structural analysis of two-sided simultaneous search
Wolthoff, Ronald - 2011
Much of the job search literature assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when meetings are actually multilateral. I analyze the magnitude of these frictions by presenting an equilibrium job search model with an endogenous number of contacts....
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Concurrent validity and feasibility of short tests currently used to measure early childhood development in large scale studies : methodology and results
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Araujo, María Caridad; Attanasio, … - 2016
; whereas the short tests were administered in the home by interviewers, as in a survey setting. Concurrent validity of the …
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The price-setting behavior of Austrian firms : some survey evidence
Kwapil, Claudia; Baumgartner, Josef; Scharler, Johann - 2005
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Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?
Bollinger, Christopher R. - 2010
Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March … survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched …
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Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions
Kleinjans, Kristin J. - 2010
We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point 50 percent answers. Our results indicate that for three of the four...
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