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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when … workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage … earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the low-productivity worker derives (dis)utility not only from his own effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990892
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The Entrepreneurial Earnings Puzzle : Mismeasurement or Real?
Astebro, Thomas B. - 2013
A review of recent evidence on relative earnings from entrepreneurship versus wage work presents a puzzle: why do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090500
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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016
on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings … countries and check for relations of expected probability to graduate and of expected earnings with personal abilities and …
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The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education
Chaudhary, Latika - 2012
offer some of the first causal estimates of the earnings gains to for-profit colleges. We rely on restricted-use data from … associate's degree programs in for-profit colleges experience earnings gains between 6 and 8 percent, although a 95 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103658
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Self-selection into credit markets : evidence from agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385235
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Relevancy of Corporate Financial Policies and the Profit Maximization View of Islamic Banks
Taskinsoy, John - 2018
This paper examines relevancy of corporate financial policies and documents similarities and/or differences of how profit maximization goal is viewed by Islamic banking institutions (IBIs). Management of the firm is ultimately responsible for maximizing profits and increasing shareholder value,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908843
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Self‐Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori A. - 2015
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020442
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078029
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Radio frequency (un)identification : results from a proof-of-concept trial of the use of RFID technology to measure microenterprise turnover in Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; Herath, Dammika; McKenzie, David J.; … - In: Development engineering 1 (2016), pp. 4-11
Accurate measurement of stock levels, turnover, and profitability in microenterprises in developing countries is difficult due to the fact that the majority of these firms do not keep detailed records. We test the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags as a means of objectively...
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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales revenues) and are less efficient in terms of Total Factor Productivity (TFP …
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