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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data
Haskel, Jonathan - 2012
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...
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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization
Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nick; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - 2021
We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over 1995-1999. For the within-shop link - holding constant the shop's permanent characteristics - we observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover...
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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2021
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011
measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125139
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Students' Cheating as a Social Interaction : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a National Evaluation Program
Lucifora, Claudio - 2012
We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the effects on students' achievements. We exploit a...
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Trust and Cheating
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159750
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Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating
Siniver, Erez - 2017
The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating and the GPA. The present paper reports the results of a two-round experiment designed to expose...
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Fighting Corruption in Education : What Works and Who Benefits?
Borcan, Oana - 2015
fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats …
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