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Candidate Quality
Takalo, Tuomas; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004
We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262486
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within …
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Principals as agents? Investigating accountability in the compensation and performance of school principals
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2007
In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and school performance. Though such incentives and standards are increasingly common, the existing...
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Management economics in a large retail organization
Siebert, William Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2008
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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Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship
Lübbecke, Silvia; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2019
Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem – although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information...
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College majors and the knowledge content of jobs
Freeman, James A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2007
knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …
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R&D and productivity: testing sectoral peculiarities using micro data
Potters, Lesley; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2008
findings can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm …
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Discounting financial literacy: time preferences and participation in financial education programs
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2008
Many policy makers and economists argue that financial literacy is key to financial well-being. But why do many individuals remain financially illiterate despite the apparent importance of being financially informed? This paper presents results of a field study linking individual decisions to...
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A theory of expert leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one … sufficient. Expert leaders are those with (1) inherent knowledge, acquired through technical expertise combined with high ability … performance through knowledge-based strategy, by acting as a standard bearer, by creating the right environment for core workers …
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