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Managerial practices and students' performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014
the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …
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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286980
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Flexible work systems and the structure of wages : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2001 - revised: July 2002
A growing literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403441
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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524993
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Co-determination and innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517154
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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the first years after German unification the distribution of GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846988
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Item non-response on income and wealth questions
Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002
detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …
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Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys : an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001876960
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Measuring trust : experiments and surveys in contrast and combination
Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments …. Inspired by criticism of the widespread trust question used in many surveys, we created a new, improved survey trust scale … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …
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A reconsideration of gender differences in risk attitudes
Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - 2014
This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find that gender differences are less ubiquitous than usually depicted. Gathering the microdata of an...
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