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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?
McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the …
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On the determinants of pay of CEOs in UK public sector higher education institutions
Bachan, Ray - 2008
fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …
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Employee training and wage dispersion: white and blue collar workers in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2010
We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the...
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Incentives in the public sector: Evidence from a government agency
Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - 2012
This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287691
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Why Do Firms Recruit Internationally?
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262537
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282402
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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG … reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the conflict of interest between the controlling and the minority owners … limited success to improve indices of firm performance in our sample. We argue that this arises from the predatory behavior of …
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research: (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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