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Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System
Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 2 (2015) 97, pp. 364-386
We estimate the impact of incentive strength on achievement under a group-based teacher incentive pay program. The … system provides variation in the share of students in a subject-grade that a teacher instructs, which proxies for incentive …. For the incentivized exams, we find that effects fade out monotonically as a teacher's portion of the group increases to …
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An Index of Labour Market Well-being for OECD Countries
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This report’s objective is the construction of an index of labour market well-being that is capable of measuring the well-being that individuals in a given society at a given point in time can obtain through the labour market. Besides considering simply the average return from working, workers...
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Bevölkerung und Wachstum: Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland als Herausforderung für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik
Kleinhenz, Gerhard D. - 2004
Die Entwicklung der Bevölkerung geriet in Deutschland infolge der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise der öffentlichen Haushalte und der Systeme sozialer Sicherung in den Focus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die in den meisten hochentwickelten Ländern sich abzeichnende Alterung und Schrumpfung der...
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Interactions Between Financial Incentives and Health in the Early Retirement Decision
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Galama, Titus J.; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely...
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Bevölkerung und Wachstum : die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland als Herausforderung für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik
Kleinhenz, Gerhard - 2004
Die Entwicklung der Bevölkerung geriet in Deutschland infolge der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise der öffentlichen Haushalte und der Systeme sozialer Sicherung in den Focus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die in den meisten hochentwickelten Ländern sich abzeichnende Alterung und Schrumpfung der...
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Interactions between financial incentives and health in the early retirement decision
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Galama, Titus J.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648295
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Bevölkerung und Wachstum: Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland als Herausforderung für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik
Kleinhenz, Gerhard D. - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2004
Die Entwicklung der Bevölkerung geriet in Deutschland infolge der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise der öffentlichen Haushalte und der Systeme sozialer Sicherung in den Focus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die in den meisten hochentwickelten Ländern sich abzeichnende Alterung und Schrumpfung der...
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Declining in Population and Growth - The Population Development in Germany as a Challenge for Economic and Social Policy
Kleinhenz, Gerhard D. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 224 (2004) 1-2, pp. 74-90
Because of the current financial crisis and the crisis of the German welfare state, the population development has become a topic of public discussion in Germany. The aging and decline of the population which is on the horizon of most of the highly-developed countries brings up fears of a...
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A Escolha Ocupacional dos Idosos no Mercado de Trabalho: Evidências para o Brasil
Queiroz, Vívian dos Santos; Ramalho, Hilton Martins de … - In: Economia 10 (2009) 4, pp. 817-848
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Roles Best Suited for Senior Citizens in the Workforce and How the Economy Could Benefit from Them
Ephraim, Isaac - 2023
Are you a senior citizen (65 years and above) thinking of what job you could do at this stage of your life? Or do you know a senior citizen thinking of what job he/she could do? Or are you a prospective senior citizen thinking of what benefit you could be of to the corporate world? This article...
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