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This paper aims at comparing the respective impact of the traditional Human Capital Variables (HCV) and of competences explicitly assessed on employees' remuneration. The data are derived from an original survey conducted in five large banking companies in Portugal. Six hundred clerks were...
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This article aims at analyzing the adoption patterns which apply on the market for higher education when two types of learning organizations - namely, traditional learning and e-learning organizations - provide educational programs. We focus on the impact of public subsidies to e-learning...
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effects across countries subjected to some set of PSRO and to compute estimates of the compliance costs associated with rules …
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The Action Lecture program is an innovative teaching method run in some nursery and primary schools in Paris and designed to improve pupils' literacy. We report the results of an evaluation of this program. We describe the experimental protocol that was built to estimate the program's impact on...
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, previous results indicate that demand variability causes a performance degradation in terms of inventory related costs when … to an augmentation of optimal base-stock levels and to a corresponding increase in optimal inventory related costs. We …
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incentives like performance pay would be less effective in inducing effort in the nonprofit sector as nonprofit workers are ready … monetary incentives, we find a significantly higher sensitivity of effort in the for-profit sector using linear and ordered … the unobserved variables determining the sensitivity of effort to actual or hypothetical monetary incentives. Finally …
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We explore the effects of competitive incentives and of their time horizon on the evolution of both asset prices and …
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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a key role in creating incentives for firms to develop a Corporate Social …
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different incentives, in particular strong monetary incentives ; i.e. that make miscalibration costly. Our main result is that a …
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1992. This allows to study in what extent the new rule modifies the prevailing routines of work organisation. Based on team …
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