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Benchmarking regions: Estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282286
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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited … capacity to improve outcomes. In such settings, major transparency related reforms might be needed to improve public service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575485
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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects: Evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012
voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited … capacity to improve outcomes. In such settings, major transparency related reforms might be needed to improve public service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283968
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Curbing cream-skimming: evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal; Kim, Do Han; Marschke, Gerald - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268996
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646325
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On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations
Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - 2008
We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269167
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Trends in economic research: an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has the recent awareness over international quality standards in economics around the world been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269503
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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution: An experimental investigation
Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269805
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Benchmarking Regions: Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279231
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279320