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On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages
Camargo, Braz; Lange, Fabian; Pastorino, Elena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
is nevertheless important for the level and dynamics of wages over the life cycle because of the incentives it indirectly … workers' ability, human capital acquisition, and performance incentives. We use this model to account for the experience … an analytical decomposition of performance pay into four terms that capture (i) the trade-off between risk and incentives …
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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation
Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role...
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Fund Flows and Income Risk of Fund Managers
Cen, Xiao; Dou, Winston Wei; Kogan, Leonid; Wu, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
elucidate the incentives they operate under, as well as the income and career risks they face, we construct a unique and novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447307
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Inefficient Labor Market Sorting
Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management...
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...
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Explorations of Cumulative Advantage Using Data on French Physicists
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...
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Stakes and Signals : An Empirical Investigation of Muddled Information in Standardized Testing
Reyes, Germán J.; Riehl, Evan; Xu, Ruqing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine a natural experiment in Brazil in which similar students took the same standardized test as either a low-stakes school accountability exam or a high-stakes admission exam for the country's top universities. Using administrative data and a difference-in-differences design, we find that...
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Life After Death : A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
Bernstein, Shai; Colonnelli, Emanuele; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In an RCT with US small businesses, we document that a large share of firms are not well-informed about bankruptcy. Many assume that bankruptcy necessarily entails the death of a business and do not know about Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where debts are renegotiated so that the business can continue...
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Managers and Productivity in Retail
Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices that matter. We shed light on this question by...
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How Many Americans Work Remotely? : A Survey of Surveys and Their Measurement Issues
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Horton, John J.; Makridis, Christos A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Remote work surged during the Covid pandemic but there is disagreement about the extent of the change. To address this question, we field a new, nationally-representative survey: the Remote Life Survey (RLS). We find that in October 2020, 31.6 percent of the continuously employed workforce...
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