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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a good allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004
This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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Search, effort, and locus of control
McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - 2011
We test the hypothesis that locus of control - one's perception of control over events in life - influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are increasing in the belief that one's efforts...
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Students' academic self-perception
Chevalier, Arnaud; Gibbons, Steve; Thorpe, Andy; Snell, … - 2007
Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing the expected costs to studying. Among high school...
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When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; … - 2020
We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback....
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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …
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Information and competition entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282257
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Image and misreporting
Ewers, Mara; Zimmermann, Florian - 2012
In this paper we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to misreporting of private information in contexts where truthful reports maximize monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286888
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279246