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How does the social distance between an employee and a manager affect employee competition for a reward?
Dutcher, Glenn - 2011
This study examines how employees internalize differences in social distance between themselves and their managers when they are competing for a reward given by the manager. In an employer/employee relationship, this difference in social distance between the employer and the various employees...
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Unemployment insurance generosity: a trans-atlantic comparison
Pallage, Stéphane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008
United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269178
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271770
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The impact of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition: Evidence from a natural experiment
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Ohio's ballot access laws as a natural experiment to overcome the endogeneity problem … decrease in Ohio's petition requirements resulted in major parties facing a signifcant increase in competition from third party …
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Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program
Hollenbeck, Kevin; Kimmel, Jean; Eberts, Randall W. - 1997
This paper presents findings from a net impact evaluation of the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program. The JOBS program … recipients who met certain criteria. The Ohio JSRP was an activity pursued by some JOBS program clients in Ohio to fulfill their … had participated in the Ohio JSRP program between its inception in 1990 and summer 1995, the time period for this study …
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Zur Leistungsfähigkeit der genossenschaftlichen Bankunternehmung
Pham-Phuong, Dong - 2004
Dieser Aufsatz dient dem Versuch, ein konsistentes wirtschaftspolitisches Bewertungsverfahren zur Analyse der Leistungsfähigkeit der genossenschaftlichen Bankunternehmung zu entwickeln. Dafür wird das auf linearer Programmierung beruhende Schätzverfahren "Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)"...
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Credit Union Policies and Performances in Latin America
Westley, Glenn; Shaffer, Sherrill - 1997
This paper presents a conceptual framework for explaining credit union (CU) loan delinquency and profitability in developing countries. It also offers an empirical estimation for a unique sample of Latin American CUs.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327024
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Group Lending versus Individual Lending in Microfinance
Lehner, Maria - 2009
Microfinance is typically associated with joint liability of group members. However, a large part of microfinance institutions rather offers individual instead of group loans. We analyze the incentive mechanisms in both individual and group contracts. Moreover, we show that microfinance...
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