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Wages, Employer Costs, and Employee Performance in the Firm
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
its hiring costs and the characteristics and performance of its employees. These measures include the previous experience … and current tenure of its employees; subjective productivity scores for these employees; job vacancy rates; perceived ease … through improved productivity and lower hiring and turnover costs among their employees …
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Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016
We design a model-based field experiment to estimate the nature and magnitude of workers' social preferences towards their employers. We hire 446 workers for a one-time task. Within worker, we vary (i) piece rates; (ii) whether the work has payoffs only for the worker, or also for the employer;...
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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...
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The Effect of Shift Structure on Performance : The Role of Fatigue for Paramedics
Brachet, Tanguy - 2010
The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics'...
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Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets
Pallais, Amanda - 2013
Hiring inexperienced workers generates information about their abilities. If this information is public, workers obtain its benefits. If workers cannot compensate firms for hiring them, firms will hire too few inexperienced workers. I determine the effects of hiring workers and revealing more...
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Learning About CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility
Pan, Yihui - 2013
When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...
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Working Over Time : Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Tasks
Augenblick, Ned - 2013
Experimental tests of dynamically inconsistent time preferences have largely relied on choices over time-dated monetary rewards. Several recent studies have failed to find the standard patterns of time inconsistency. However, such monetary studies contain often discussed confounds. In this...
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Feeling the Heat : Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2013
Does temperature affect economic performance? Has temperature always affected social welfare through its impact on physical and cognitive function? While many economic studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e.g. agriculture, conflict, sea-level rise), few address...
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Testing the Theory of Multitasking : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories
Hong, Fuhai - 2013
A well-recognized problem in the multitasking literature is that workers might substantially reduce their effort on tasks that produce unobservable outputs as they seek the salient rewards to observable outputs. Since the theory related to multitasking is decades ahead of the empirical evidence,...
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Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance : Evidence from Impact
Dee, Thomas S. - 2013
Teachers in the United States are compensated largely on the basis of fixed schedules that reward experience and credentials. However, there is a growing interest in whether performance-based incentives based on rigorous teacher evaluations can improve teacher retention and performance. The...
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