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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2013
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...
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University rankings in action? : The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I estimate a random utility model using administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374442
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Accuracy and properties of German business cycle forecasts
Osterloh, Steffen (contributor) - 2006
In this paper the accuracy of a wide range of German business cycle forecasters is assessed for the past 10 years. For this purpose, a data set is used comprising forecasts published on a monthly basis by Consensus Economics. The application of several descriptive as well as statistical measures...
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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation
Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440946
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Exploring the tail of patented invention value distributions
Harhoff, Dietmar; Scherer, Frederic M.; Vopel, Katrin - 1997
We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U.S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data...
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How do employment effects of job creation schemes differ with respect to the foregoing unemployment duration?
Hujer, Reinhard (contributor);  … - 2006
Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May … into quarters, regional (East and West Germany) as well as gender differences are considered in the estimation. As matching … influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant …
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Zur wissenschaftlichen Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland : ein Überblick
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2000
Arbeitsmarktpolitik (AAMP) in Deutschland. Das Grundproblem mikroökonomischer Evaluation besteht darin, den Vergleichsmaßstab bei …Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick der neueren wissenschaftlichen Literatur zur Evaluation der Aktiven … der möglichen Endogenität der AAMP Rechnung tragen. Die meisten Evaluationsstudien für Deutschland zeigen keine signifiant …
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Identifying effekt heterogeneity to improve the effeciency of job creation schemes in Germany?
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Hujer, Reinhard (contributor) - 2005
Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating … West Germany who benefit from participation in terms of higher employment rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002822067
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Evaluating the impacts of subsidies on innovation activities in Germany
Hujer, Reinhard (contributor); Radic, Dubravko (contributor) - 2005
effectiveness of these measures, however, is ambiguous and calls for an empirical evaluation. In this paper we make use of the IAB …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002906079
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Distributional effects of the high school degree in Germany
Gernand, Johann Casimir (contributor) - 2006
Germany. In that period the share of male workers with a high school degree increased from 16 to 25 percent. An econometric … evaluation estimator is used to analyze quantile treatment effects for the whole population of male workers and for the …
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