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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...
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The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment : Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries
Cingano, Federico - 2009
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in...
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Displacement and Debt : The Role of Debt in Returning to Work in the Period Following the Great Recession
Bednarzik, Robert - 2017
The onset of the housing and subsequent financial crisis in 2008 marked the steepest economic downturn in the United. States, since the Great Depression in the late 1920s and 1930s. This most recent financial crisis has been characterized by massive layoffs and displacement. Given the depth of...
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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies : An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
Owolabi, Oluwarotimi Ayokunnu - 2011
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...
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Inflation Expectations and Corporate Borrowing Decisions : New Causal Evidence
Ropele, Tiziano; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - 2022
We match survey data of Italian firms that includes a repeated experiment in which information about inflation is randomly provided to firms over time with detailed credit data that covers the borrowing decisions of firms. This allows us to study how exogenous variation in inflation expectations...
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 2011
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
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Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching : An American Case Study
Radchenko, Natalia - 2020
This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to …
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If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9 : Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Bertoni, Marco - 2020
document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of …
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Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?
Briole, Simon - 2019
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career...
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna - 2015
the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this …
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