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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
Brown, Sarah - 2014
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...
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Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?
Guarino, Cassandra M. - 2012
We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method...
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Measuring Trust : Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination
Naef, Michael - 2009
Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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The Divorce Revolution and Generalized Trust : Evidence from the United States 1973-2010
Viitanen, Tarja K. - 2014
This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the General Social Survey from 1973-2010. The easier divorce culture is defined as the introduction of no-fault including unilateral divorce reforms across the US.According to the...
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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
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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 …
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A New Measure of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Economy
Bailey, Keith - 2020
We create a measure of multiple jobholding from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. This new series shows that 7.8 percent of persons in the U.S. are multiple jobholders, this percentage is pro-cyclical, and has been trending upward during the past twenty...
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Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector : Evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila - 2015
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty
Chau, Nancy H. - 2015
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
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