Similar Search Results

Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004

Many biases plague the estimation of rent sharing in labour markets. Using a Portuguese matched employer-employee panel, these biases are addressed in this paper in three complementary ways: 1) Controlling directly for the fact that firms that share more rents will, ceteris paribus, have lower...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275776

Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2002

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274316

Globalization and Firm Performance

Catão, Luis A. V.; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023

Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296647

High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931627

School quality, educational attainment and aggregation bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - 2004

Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261766

Minimizing bias in selection on observables estimators when unconfoundness fails

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2008

We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268598

Social ties and subjective performance evaluations: An empirical investigation

Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269802

Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Skinner, Chris - 2010

We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276708

Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations

Kusterer, David; Sliwka, Dirk - 2022

We study the determinants of biases in subjective performance evaluations in an MTurk experiment to test the implications of a standard formal framework of rational subjective evaluations. In the experiment, subjects in the role of workers work on a real effort task. Subjects in the role of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426345

Reconsidering Union Wage Effects: Surveying New Evidence on an Old Topic

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

average union premium of roughly 15 percent is called into question. Two forms of measurement error create a downward bias in … standard wage gap estimates. Match bias results from Census earnings imputation procedures that do not include union status as … a match criterion. Downward bias is roughly equal to the proportion of workers with imputed earnings, currently about 30 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261534