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High-stakes national testing, gender and school stress in Europe : a difference-in-difference analysis
Högberg, Björn; Horn, Dániel - 2021
systems. In this study, we ask if high-stakes testing affects school-related stress among students and if there are gender …-reported school-related stress by almost 10 % of a standard deviation. This is primarily driven by a strong effect for girls, meaning … that high-stakes testing increases the gender gap in school-related stress. The results are robust to a range of …
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Is your job bad for your health? : explaining differences in health at work across gender
Cottini, Elena - In: International journal of manpower 33 (2012) 3, pp. 301-321
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Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2014 - This draft: June 2014
This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out­comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich...
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Arbeitsrechtliche Schwellenwerte und betriebliche Arbeitsplatzdynamik : eine empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel des Schwerbehindertengesetzes
Koller, Lena; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - In: Journal for labour market research 39 (2006) 2, pp. 181-199
In dieser Arbeit werden Auswirkungen des deutschen Schwerbehindertengesetzes auf die Arbeitsplatzdynamik mit Daten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und des IAB-Betriebspanels empirisch überprüft. Die Daten erlauben eine Untersuchung der zweiten Schwelle des Gesetzes von 25 Beschäftigten, bei...
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Executive board composition and bank risk taking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - 2012
Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...
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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions
Wolf, Elke - 1998
The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...
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Betriebliche Personalpolitik im technologischen und organisatorischen Innovationsprozess
Beckmann, Michael - 2004 - 1. Aufl.
Technologische und organisatorische Innovationen stellen heutzutage große Anforderungen an eine moderne Personalpolitik und andere Bereiche der Unternehmenspolitik. Sie können auf betriebliche Geschäftsstrategien ebenso Einfluss ausüben wie auf die Veränderung von Unternehmensgrenzen und...
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The value of signals in hidden action models : concepts, application, and empirical evidence : with 9 tables
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2004
What happens if A wants to buy a good or service from B, but not all relevant characteristics can be fixed in a contract? This book gives a non-technical overview of various models dealing with this situation. Particular emphasis is put on the problem that the service includes various tasks and...
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