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Bounding the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health : Nonparametric Evidence from Four Countries

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2017

different institutional settings – Australia, Germany, the UK, and the US – using a nonparametric bounds analysis. Relying on … health in all countries. Our results rule out effects larger than a quarter of a standard deviation for Germany and half a …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

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Working-Time Mismatch and Mental Health

Otterbach, Steffen - 2016

Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working …

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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Friebel, Guido - 2016

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

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Questioning the Stereotype of the 'Malingering Bureaucrat' : Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany

Prümer, Stephanie - 2019

for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences … that the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" seems to be an exaggeration, at least for Germany …

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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...

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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja - 2011

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …

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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany

Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011

comparison income effect. In East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all. With data from the British …

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