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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires

Blau, Francine D. - 2010

Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we …

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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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Mental Health Stigma

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015

Comparing self-reports to administrative data records on diagnosis and prescription drug use, we find that survey … about prescription drug use. Survey respondents are significantly less likely to under-report other conditions such as …

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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures made available to supervisors, the board of directors and other stakeholders, and these structures almost certainly influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence...

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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

Exley, Christine L - 2019

In applications, interviews, performance reviews, and many other environments, individuals are explicitly asked or implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap...

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Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations : Evidence from Auto Manufacturing

Cai, Jing; Wang, Shing-Yi B. - 2022

Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We find that providing feedback leads to significant...

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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices

Buser, Thomas - 2012

Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in education and labor market outcomes. We correlate an incentivized measure of competitiveness with an important career choice of secondary school students in the Netherlands. At the age...

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Shaped by Booms and Busts : How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles

Schoar, Antoinette - 2014

We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also have more conservative styles, such as lower...

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Promotions and the Peter Principle

Benson, Alan - 2018

The best worker is not always the best candidate for manager. In these cases, do firms promote the best potential manager or the best worker in her current job? Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 214 firms, we find evidence consistent with the “Peter Principle,” which...

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