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The Informal Sector Wage Gap : New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …
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Performance Measurement, Expectancy andAgency Theory: An Experimental Study
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within therealm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme,the agent's optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861675
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Does it Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Lee, Jungmin - 2011
their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a … reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might … suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129914
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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose - 2011
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130794
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2011
consideration of two measurement issues that have typically been overlooked in the literature: the implications of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117624
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Can Money Change Who We are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011
The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity...
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On Educational Performance Measures
Muriel, Alastair - 2011
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121550
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Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Burks, Stephen V. - 2011
Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcomes; however, we still do not know which measures work best. With the help of a large sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122971