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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10726 Laurent Gobillon
Dominique Meurs
Sébastien Roux
Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 145, 29-74)
C51, J31, J45
10725 Anders Frederiksen
Lisa B. Kahn
Fabian Lange
Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (6), 2123-2187)
M5
10724 Nicholas Bloom
Erik Brynjolfsson
Lucia Foster
Ron Jarmin
Megha Patnaik
Itay Saporta-Eksten
John Van Reenen
What Drives Differences in Management?
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (5), 1648 - 1683)
L2, M2, O32, O33
10723 Archontis L. Pantsios
Solomon Polachek
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes
The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with ...
(published in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2017, 45 (2), 149-161)
J51, J52, C72, C78
10722 Marion Collewet
Jan Sauermann
Working Hours and Productivity
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 96-106)
J23, J22, M12, M54
10721 Ravi Kanbur
Andy Snell
Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (621), 2216 - 2239)
A10, A13, C01, C12, D63
10719 Stephane Mahuteau
Kostas Mavromaras
Sue Richardson
Rong Zhu
Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia
This paper examines wage differentials between public sector and private sector workers in Australia. After controlling for observed characteristics and individual fixed effects, we show that on ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2017, 93, s105–s121)
J31, J45
10718 Manuel Fernandez Sierra
Julián Messina
Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573)
E24, J20, J31
10717 Ganna Pogrebna
Andrew J. Oswald
David Haig
Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17)
J16, C93, C90, D81
10715 Malte Sandner
Thomas Cornelissen
Tanja Jungmann
Peggy Herrmann
Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Our analysis exploits a randomized controlled trial and combines rich ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 269 - 283)
I14
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