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When the early bird catches the worm: The impact of training in retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …

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Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2000

This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...

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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....

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A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria: how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment

Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - 2008

This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...

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Under-savers anonymous: Evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device

Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012

While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...

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E-Learning Engagement Gap during School Closures: Differences by Academic Performance

Amer-Mestre, Josep; Ayarza-Astigarraga, Alaitz; Lopes, … - 2021

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic … academic performance increased their searches for e-learning tools more than higher-performing regions. Analysing school … less e-learning tools than higher performing ones. These two findings suggest that the COVID-19 shock widened the e-learning …

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When the Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Impact of Training in Retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325437

Divorce: What Does Learning Have to Do with It?

Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2015

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form … implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand …

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Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives

Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2015

We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different distributions of prizes which motivate agents to compete to be first, avoid being last, or both. We find that the combined tournament contract incorporating both incentives at the top...

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Your Move: The Effect of Chess on Mathematics Test Scores

Gumede, Kamilla; Rosholm, Michael - 2015

We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test score data with a comprehensive data base from administrative register. We use a...

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