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. …

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms … traits on performance. We find that more neurotic subjects perform worse, and that more conscientious individuals perform … on labor market outcomes operates through productivity. In addition, we find evidence that gender and university major …

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. …

While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms … traits on performance. We find that more neurotic subjects perform worse, and that more conscientious individuals perform … on labor market outcomes operates through productivity. In addition, we find evidence that gender and university major …

This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular …, active labour market policies may consist of different training programmes, employment programmes and wage subsidies …

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD … focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through …-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer …

creation schemes have a significantly lower success probability on the labour market in comparison to matched non-participants. …