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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Devicienti, Francesco; Manello, Alessandro; Vannoni, Davide - 2016

agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis …, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to get reliable estimates of technical efficiency at the firm level in a … frontiers, as well as to the presence of outliers. The obtained efficiency scores are analyzed in a second stage applying a …

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Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the … Nordics, are not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This suggests …

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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online

Arechar, Antonio A.; Gächter, Simon; Molleman, Lucas - 2017

Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological discussion of the similarities and...

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Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany: Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)

Wagner, Gert G.; Bruemmer, Martin; Glemser, Axel; … - 2017

This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like the state of the European Union, long-term...

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Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2023

Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether British culture evolved to manifest a heightened belief in progress associated with science and industry. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, there was a separation in the language of...

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Star Wars: The empirics strike back

Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; … - 2013

Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...

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Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Heyes, Anthony - 2018

The economics 'credibility revolution' has promoted the identification of causal relationships using difference-in-differences (DID), instrumental variables (IV), randomized control trials (RCT) and regression discontinuity design (RDD) methods. The extent to which a reader should trust claims...

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Overtime Hours in Great Britain over the Period 1975-1999: A Panel Data Analysis

Kalwij, Adriaan S.; Gregory, Mary - 2000

Around 40% of the male workforce regularly works 8 to 9 hours a week of paid overtime. This paper investigates the determinants of overtime hours in Britain over the period 1975-1999. For this purpose a panel data Tobit model is estimated using the very large panel of employees from the National...

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How do training programs assign participants to training? Characterizing the assignment rules of government agencies for Welfare-to-Work programs in California

Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2009

A great deal of attention has been paid in the literature to estimating the impacts of training programs. Much less attention has been devoted to how training agencies assign participants to training programs, and to how these allocation decisions vary with agency resources, the initial skill...

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