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Chief Marketing Officers at Work
Steimle, Josh - 2016
Read 29 in-depth, candid interviews with people holding the top marketing roles within their organizations. Interviewees include CMOs and other top marketers from established companies and organizations-such as Linda Boff of GE, Jeff Jones of Target, and Kenny Brian of the Harvard Business...
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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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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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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on …
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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies : Evidence from ELSA and HRS
Banks, James W. - 2010
correlated with these outcomes is a critical concern. We explored some possible reasons for these differences. Survey maturity …
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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics
Dillon, Andrew - 2012
randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work …. Proxy reports do not differ significantly from a childﾒs self-report. Further analysis demonstrates that survey design …
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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Bardasi, Elena - 2012
survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
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