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Girls in Science and Technology Education: A Study on Access, Participation, and Performance of Girls in Nepal
Koirala, Dr. Vidya Nath; Acharya, Dr. Susan - eSocialSciences - 2010
was undertaken essentially to achieve four objectives, viz. to review curricular and research materials from gender lens … surveyed and data of 80,838 students analyzed quantitatively. This apart, qualitative information obtained from 22 different …
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
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Job Assignments under Moral Hazard:The Peter Principle Revisited
Koch, Alexander Karl; Nafziger, Julia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often placeemployees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second,demotions are extremely rare...
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Feedback and incentives : experimental evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 16 (2009) 6, pp. 679-688
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Stochastic reservation and offer wages
Groot, Wim - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 1 (1994) 3, pp. 383-390
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Personel contacts and earnings : it is who you know!
Mortensen, Dale - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 1 (1994) 2, pp. 187-201
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Evaluating reported determinants of labor demand
Ross, David R.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 1 (1993) 1, pp. 71-84
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Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining
Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2010
relative contributions of involved agents are blurred; either by lack of information about the actual performance of … coarse performance information lead to bargaining asymmetries. In addition, we find that bargainers' subjective entitlements … are also influenced by performance information and the randomness inherent in the production process. These differences in …
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Learning About a Class of Belief-Dependent Preferences Without Information on Beliefs
Bellemare, Charles - 2011
information about the (higher-order) beliefs of players. The approach can be applied to a class of belief-dependent preferences …
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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …
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