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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...
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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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Institutions, social norms, and bargaining power: an analysis of individual leisure time in couple households
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Stratton, Leslie Sundt - 2008
individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian … social norms in Denmark will mitigate the impact standard economic power measures have upon couples' time use. Further we … posit that leisure time will be more sensitive to power considerations than housework time which may be more influenced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276860
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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution: Evidence from performance measures
Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272657
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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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The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis
Grund, Christian; Minten, Axel; Toporova, Nevena - 2017
We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of temporary agency workers. To do so, we are using a unique dataset from one of Germany's largest temporary work agencies. For 3,000 temporary agency workers, a subjective motivation...
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Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers
Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015
This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401685
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Performance Measure Properties and Incentives
Gibbs, Michael; Merchant, Kenneth A.; van der Stede, Wim A. - 2004
We examine the effects of performance measure properties on incentive system design, using data on incentive contracts for auto dealership managers. The data include information on five properties: two indicators of risk; two indicators of distortion; and one indicator of potential manipulation....
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On educational performance measures
Muriel, Alastair; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2011
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278653
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On Educational Performance Measures
Muriel, Alastair; Smith, Jeffrey A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220623