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costs). The estimation results indicate that simple cross-sectional estimates of the effects of implementing HPWSs on labor … innovative workplace practices. The latter bias appears to be quantitatively more important. Results from estimating a correlated … random coefficient model further suggest that a potential bias in the 2SLS-estimates due to self-selection seems to be …
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. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that … the effect of this bias is substantial in samples with limited inter-firm movement. The correlation between worker and …
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In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …
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Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...
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We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
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We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...
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representative sample of the German population. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent …
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empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the …
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We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females? willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
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Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
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