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The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity : A Field Experiment with Airline Captains
Gosnell, Greer - 2019
Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet, causal evidence regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for high-skilled workers in the developed world. In an eight-month field experiment measuring the...
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education
Neidell, Matthew - 2010
We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to account for the endogeneity of peer group formation. We find statistically significant and robust spillover...
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Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...
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Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover
Carter, Susan - 2016
Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987143
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Institutional Aspects of High Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany
Burda, Michael C.; Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2021
The sustained rise in German unemployment since 1973 poses a problem of critical importance for the world economy. Fewer than two decades ago, Germany boasted an average unemployment rate of under 1% and imported labor to relieve chronic labor shortages. By the mid-1980s, unemployment had risen...
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training
Dave, Dhaval - 2011
estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131698
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Labor and Transfer Income and Older Women's Work : Estimates from the United States
Jong, Philip de - 2010
This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …
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Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2010
Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on evidence that absences of young female Italian bank employees follow a 28-day cycle. We analyze absenteeism of teachers and find no evidence of increased female absenteeism on a...
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Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Hyperbolic Discounting, with an Application to Mammography Decisions
Fang, Hanming - 2010
application of adult women's decisions to undertake mammography to evaluate the importance of present bias and naivety in the …
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Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition
Canes, Brandice J. - 2011
It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
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