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Advising Policymakers Through the Media
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key issue is the education of policymakers through the media. It is the silver bullet of policy advice in comparison to...
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Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?
Spieß, Christa Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008
We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268784
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Performance-related funding of universities: Does more competition lead to grade inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011
German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...
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Getting more work for nothing? Symbolic awards and worker performance
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne - 2010
an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a database project. Students in the award … treatment were offered a congratulatory card from the organization honoring the best performance. The award was purely symbolic … award treatment outperform students in the control treatment by about 12 percent on average. Our results provide strong …
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Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a database project. Students in the award … treatment were offered a congratulatory card from the organization honoring the best performance. The award was purely symbolic … award treatment outperform students in the control treatment by about 12 percent on average. Our results provide strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466018
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Allocating Awards Across Noncomparable Categories
Magee, Lonnie; Veall, Michael R. - 2002
Suppose an agency awards a fixed number of prizes to applicants in different categories such that the applicant-to-winner ratio is constant by category. It is demonstrated in a simple theoretical model that the number of awards in a category will typically be positively related to the degree of...
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003
for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261655
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...
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The optimal timing of school tracking
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - 2004
tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …
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