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Discretion in Hiring
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2015
to forgo the potentially valuable private information of their managers. We study the introduction of job testing across … 15 firms employing low-skilled service sector workers. When faced with similar applicant pools, we find that managers who … appear to hire against test recommendations end up with worse average hires. This suggests that managers often overrule test …
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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions : Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
In this paper we analyze the problem of whether and/or when to replace a leader (agent) when no monetary rewards are available, and it is the leader's competence rather than effort that is being evaluated. The only decisions that the leader takes over time are whether to undertake risky but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050303
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891317
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758460
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765570
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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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Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major
Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2011
Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128602
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An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Models of Risky Decision Making
Baker, Joanna R. - 2010
In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain the choices individuals make when faced with risky prospects. To make this assessment, we use experimental evidence for two random samples of young adults. Using a robust,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135363
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An Economic Model of Amniocentesis Choice
Fajnzylber, Eduardo - 2010
Medical practitioners typically utilize the following protocol when advising pregnant women about testing for the possibility of genetic disorders: Pregnant women over the age of 35 should be tested for Down syndrome and other genetic disorders; for younger women, such tests are discouraged...
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