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Intergenerational Transmission ofLanguage Capital and Economic Outcomes
Casey, Teresa; Dustmann, Christian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongstimmigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of secondgeneration immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861653
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Relational contracts when the agent's productivity inside the relationship is correlated with outside opportunities
Wagner, Alexander F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
An agent can choose to forego benefits from side opportunities and to instead provide benefits to the principal. In return, the principal offers rewards. If this exchange is not contractible, typically repeated interaction will be required to sustain it. This model allows the agent's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002384
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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
relative importance of the determinants of promotion determine academics' effort. Because of the specific characteristics of … Italian universities, where incentives operate only through promotion, and where all appointment panels are drawn from … to increases in the importance of the measurable determinants of promotion and in the competitiveness of the scientific …
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Herding cats? Management and university performance
McCormack, John; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
incentives for staff recruitment, retention and promotion, are correlated with both teaching and research performance conditional …
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Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes
Saygin, Perihan; Weber, Andrea; Weynandt, Michèle A. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. This paper studies the mechanisms by which social networks have an impact on labor market outcomes of displaced workers. We base our analysis on administrative records for the universe of private sector...
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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge
Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexitymakes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are welldefinedobjectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders’ characteristics. We showthat a strong predictor of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859521
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The Peter Principle: An Experiment
Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promotedemployees tends to fall. Lazear …
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Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?
Gielen, Anne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In a dynamic labor market worker-firm matches dissolve frequently causing workers to separate and firms to look for replacements. A separation may be initiated by the worker (a quit) or the firm (a layoff), or may result from a joint decision. A dissolution of a worker-firm match may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789184
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The Internal Governance of Firms
Acharya, Viral V; Myers, Stewart C; Rajan, Raghuram G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential reaction of subordinates. We find that internal governance can mitigate agency problems and ensure firms have substantial value, even without any external governance. Internal...
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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity
Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies using either quarterly or annual data from differentcountries with varying institutional frameworks, it is not yet clear whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the...
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