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both on team performance and efficiency, using data from Major League Baseball(MLB) and a stochastic frontier model with a … inequality and team performance, and find that most MLB teams have wage structures which are sub-optimal. Furthermore using a …The effect of wage inequality on team production is an important question in labor economics. Data from sports are well …
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with respect to the number of goals, match results, the number of scoring chances for both teams, and referee evaluations …. We find some evidence for derby effects, for example, the home advantage of the home team with respect to the number of … goals scored, the match result and the attempts vanishes whenever the match is a derby. With respect to the evaluation of …
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Serbia, without doubt, has qualitative and diverse base to develop tourism. Natural attractions as well as attained level of lodging and other capacities point out that numerous types of tourism could be developed, especially if one takes into account landscape diversity as well as natural...
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This paper is a comparative qualitative analysis of counseling and counselors in family planning and reproductive health services in four settings: two in the United States, one in London, and one in Kenya. Accomplished counselors perform in a dual sense, carrying out a difficult task and doing...
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paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …
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We examine how idea exposure produces cognitive stimulation. Study participants were given stimulus ideas with a low or high level of originality, or with absurd content. Stimuli were exposed in conditions of face-to-face communication and with computer and paper mediation, respectively. Three...
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This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that when home teams receive a red card,...
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