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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261976
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Price and Saliency in Health Care: When Can Targeted Nudges Change Behaviors?
Walker, Brigham - 2020
This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health services. A large employer e-mailed individually-targeted health education encouraging high-value care to high-risk employees. Weeks before the program launched, a company...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322650
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Competition and educational productivity: Incentives writ large
MacLeod, William Bentley; Urquiola Soux, Miguel - 2012
Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling services in a free market ((Friedman (1955, 1962)). Hoxby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291369
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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Habermalz, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566366
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Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large
MacLeod, W. Bentley; Urquiola, Miguel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling services in a free market ((Friedman (1955, 1962)). Hoxby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632994
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The impact of social comparisons on reciprocity
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2008
We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort … comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental firms composed of one employer and two … employees. Exposure to pay comparison information in isolation from effort comparison information does not appear to affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268708
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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Sabirianova … - 2003
information about values of location-specific amenities and quality of life in this large transition economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261613
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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Peter, Klara … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
information about values of location-specific amenities and quality of life in this large transition economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763711
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Addressing Soil Quality Data Gaps with Imputation: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda
Dang, Hai-Anh; Carletto, Calogero; Gourlay, Sydney; … - 2024
Monitoring soil quality provides indispensable inputs for effective policy advice, but very few poorer countries can implement high-quality surveys on soil. We offer an alternative, low-cost imputation-based approach to generating various soil quality indicators. The estimation results validate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045481
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Feedback and incentives: experimental evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268675