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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on …, we compute the distance between each household's census tract of residence and the nearest Walmart Supercenter. We … estimate instrumental variables models that leverage the predictable geographic expansion patterns of Walmart Supercenters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873593
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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization
Siebert, W. Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over1995-1999. For the within-shop link – holding constant the shop’s permanent characteristics – we observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763699
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Revitalising the Silk Road: Evidence from Railway Infrastructure Investments in Northwest China
Yu, Lamont Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2022
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development and integration. This paper investigates the economic effects of the opening of the only high-speed rail (HSR) line in northwest China which connects China’s northwestern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351993
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Regulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269333
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Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
Huffman, David B.; Raymond, Collin; Shvets, Julia - 2023
A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time. Using reduced form and structural methods we...
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Effects of E-commerce on Local Labor Markets
Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofía - 2023
This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...
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Optimizing incentive plan design: A case study
Levenson, Alec; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; Benson, George - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
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Design and implementation of pay for performance
Gibbs, Michael - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice.
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Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Vu, Nam - 2021
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...
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Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data
Lusher, Lester; Schnorr, Geoffrey; Taylor, Rebecca L.C. - 2021
We provide causal evidence of an ex ante moral hazard effect of Unemployment Insurance (UI) by matching plausibly exogenous changes in UI benefit duration across state-weeks during the Great Recession to high-frequency productivity measures from individual supermarket cashiers. Estimating models...
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