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Selective Schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
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Anonymous job applications of fresh Ph.D. economists
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Discrimination in recruitment decisions is well documented. Anonymous job applications may reduce discriminatory behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized experiment with fresh Ph.D. economists on the academic job market using data from a...
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Anonymous job applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
recently conducted. Also in Germany, a large field experiment has examined the practicability and potentials of this approach …
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Differentiation and performance: An empirical investigation on the incentive effects of bonus plans
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...
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The impact of managerial change on performance: The role of team heterogeneity
Hentschel, Sandra; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2012
When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager is less well acquainted with these talents this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a...
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How the Minimum Wage Affects Training among Apprentices
Papps, Kerry L. - 2020
exploits a discontinuity in the minimum wage received by apprentices in the United Kingdom to examine this question. Workers …
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The effect of economic downturns on apprenticeships and initial workplace training: a review of the evidence
Brunello, Giorgio - 2009
downturns, is relatively scarce. The bottom line of this literature is that ratio of apprentices to employees tends to be … least in England). When broader measures of training are considered, which exclude apprentices, the weight of the evidence …
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Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not
Wolter, Stefan C.; Mühlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg - 2003
most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their apprenticeship on the basis of the productive contribution … of the work they perform. Given this outcome, it is worth investigating why so many firms choose not to train apprentices … training regulations and the market situation permit a cost effective training of apprentices, companies do not need specific …
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Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model
Bonin, Holger; Schneider, Hilmar - 2004
social insurance reform in Germany suggest that previous calibration-based results accurately indicate the direction of …
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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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