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regulation would be in force by the time their child is born. Our results are based on unique data from the official evaluation …
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We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...
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for reform and its main principles. As results of programme evaluation studies post-reform have become available just now …
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evaluation concept capable of generating reliable empirical evidence by that date. The task is therefore to develop a ready …-to-implement concept for the evaluation of the full set of reforms in their entirety, as well as each instrument on its own, facing … essential guidelines for an ideal evaluation design, conceptual and practical difficulties that arise in the context of …
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We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …
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