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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom

Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

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Entrepreneurial Couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam C. van; Thompson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the training (employee or employer); and the skill...

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Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Kato, Takao; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a …

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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...

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Résultat et performance financière en normes IFRS : quel est le contenu informatif du comprehensive income ?.

Ramond, Olivier; Casta, Jean-François; Batsch, Laurent - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2007

normes de reporting de la performance financière. Intitulé à l'origine « Performance Reporting » et se référant à une …'introduction du comprehensive income dans le cadre du projet Performance Reporting au regard des critères de qualité de l … performance : le résultat net, le résultat opérationnel et le comprehensive income. Nous mettons empiriquement en évidence : (1 …

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Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab

Cubel, Maria; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

traits on performance. We find that more neurotic subjects perform worse, and that more conscientious individuals perform … affect the impact of the Big Five personality traits on performance. …

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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data

Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

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