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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Frederiksen, Anders - 2017

We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that supervisors vary widely in how they rate subordinates of similar quality. To...

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What Do Performance Appraisals Do?

Cappelli, Peter - 2016

This paper investigates employee performance appraisals using data from a single US firm between 2001 and 2007. We find that performance appraisals are both informative and drive important components of the employment contract. We find that employee appraisal scores vary considerably both...

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What Drives Aggregate Investment? Evidence from German Survey Data

Bachmann, Rudi - 2013

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological …

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The Potential Use of In-Home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys

Leicester, Andrew - 2013

such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …

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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods

Barrett, Garry F. - 2013

This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …

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Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2017

, and Szembrot, 2014), which uses self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey …

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Appliance Ownership and Aspirations Among Electric Grid and Home Solar Households in Rural Kenya

Lee, Kenneth - 2016

summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …

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Interviewing in Two-Sided Matching Markets

Lee, Robin S. - 2009

We introduce the interview assignment problem, which generalizes the one-to-one matching model of Gale and Shapley (1962) by introducing a stage of costly information acquisition. Firms learn preferences over workers via costly interviews. Even if all firms and workers conduct the same number of...

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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

Hoffman, Florian - 2007

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...

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Non-Response in the American Time Use Survey : Who is Missing from the Data and How Much Does it Matter?

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2007

This paper examines non-response in a large government survey. The response rate for the American Time Use Survey (ATUS … of estimates are broadly similar. The paper ends with a discussion of survey design features, their effect on the types …

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