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Working Time Accounts and Turnover
Launov, Andrey - 2017
Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms smoothing their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal choice of hours by a firm I show that...
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Does Increased Teacher Accountability Decrease Leniency in Grading?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2019
Because accountability may improve the comparability that is compromised by lenient grading, we compare exit exam outcomes in the same schools before and after a policy change that increased teacher accountability by anchoring grading scales. In particular, using a large administrative dataset...
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The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation : An International Comparison
Kuhn, Andreas - 2010
This paper describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for fifteen OECD member countries. An overwhelming majority of individuals (more than 90%) believes that top executives earn more than they actually deserve. However,...
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Substitution between Managers and Subordinates : Evidence from British Football
Bridgewater, Sue - 2009
We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …
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On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions
Bachan, Ray - 2021
The pay determining process of CEOs of UK higher education institutions is modelled using three econometric methodologies applied to a large and unique dataset for the academic years 1997/98 through to 2005/06. A gender differential in pay is detected and this differential remains robust across...
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The Cost Impact of Spam Filters : Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations
Caliendo, Marco; Clement, Michel; Papies, Dominik; … - 2021
More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce...
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
about 0.10 standard deviations of additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide …
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The Long Shadow of Income on Trustworthiness
Ermisch, John - 2011
We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. These previous interviews allow us to have very good income measures, and in particular...
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Union Threat and Non-Union Employment : A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
Salvatori, Andrea - 2011
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...
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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain : Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Chib, Siddhartha - 2011
In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...
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