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Mystery Shopping as a Strategic Management Practice in Multi-Site Firms

Block, Sidney; Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; … - 2022

Anonymous and unannounced site inspections known as "Mystery Shopping" (MS) are common in multi-site service firms, but little is known about the strategic importance of this practice. We conceptualize MS as a monitoring tool firms use to implement the optimal allocation of site resources...

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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010

Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...

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Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...

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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression

Bellou, Andriana - 2014

The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that links the latter to the Great Depression and the...

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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression : What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?

Hart, Robert A. - 2010

Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...

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Does Measurement Error Explain the Increase in Subminimum Wage Payment Following Minimum Wage Increases?

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2022

measurement error. Indeed, prior work posits that a simple, symmetric measurement process may underlie both phenomena in Current …. Symmetric measurement error cannot explain this heterogeneity, which increases the likelihood that both spillovers and … subminimum-wage payment are real effects of minimum wage increases rather than artifacts of measurement error …

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Regression Discontinuity Design with Continuous Measurement Error in the Running Variable

Davezies, Laurent - 2017

Effects (LATE). When the running variable is observed with continuous measurement error, identification fails. Assuming non …-differential measurement error, we propose a consistent non-parametric estimator of the LATE when the discrepancy between the true running …

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The Devil is in the Tails : Regression Discontinuity Design with Measurement Error in the Assignment Variable

Pei, Zhuan - 2016

when a covariate (assignment variable) exceeds a known threshold. If the assignment variable is measured with error … assignment variable may disappear. Therefore, the presence of measurement error in the assignment variable poses a challenge to …

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Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2018

reasons for these errors including imputation, an important source of error. Both false negative and false positive reports …

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Trouble in the Tails? What We Know About Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch

Bollinger, Christopher R. - 2018

Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and inequality using Current Population Survey individual records linked to administrative earnings...

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