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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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Sick of your colleagues' absence?

Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2009

We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the...

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Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...

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Sickness absence and local benefit cultures

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2011

In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has been difficult to explain these variations by...

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Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa

Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2007

through the local communities. This may have led to closer monitoring and more effective hiring of contract teachers. In Niger … the quantile treatment effects for Niger, Togo and Mali, based on very informative data, comparable across these countries …, somewhat mixed in Togo (with positive effects in 2nd and negative effects in 5th grade) and negative in Niger. This ordering is …

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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Trust and Control at the Workplace:Evidence from Representative Samples ofEmployees in Europe

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

performance appraisalsystems, monitoring by supervisors, autonomy to organize the work) and individuals’inclination to trust …

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Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values

El Badaoui, Eliane; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018

This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The …

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