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When the Early Bird Catches the Worm : The Impact of Training in Retail

Hinerasky, Christiane - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...

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Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - 2009

This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...

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Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises

Vladasel, Theodor; Parker, Simon C.; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2022

Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less...

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Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Button, Patrick - 2019

I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives, matching this with TV series and feature film data from the...

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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2011

by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …

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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality : Comparing the U.S. And Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Pichler, Stefan - 2016

This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...

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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Marx, Paul - 2019

-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …

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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R. - 2016

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

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