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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015

We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U … lenders. The estimation results imply an increase of 3-4 jobs for each million dollars of loans, suggesting that credit …-county versus non-SBA county-industry control firms. Finally, for loans issued over the 1992-2007 period, we estimate total job …

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Does the quality of training programs matter? Evidence from bidding processes data

Chong, Alberto; Galdo, Jose - 2006

training courses is based on public bidding processes that assign standardized scores to multiple proxies for quality. Second …

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Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data

Chong, Alberto; Galdo, Jose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

training courses is based on public bidding processes that assign standardized scores to multiple proxies for quality. Second …

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Social Networks and the Labour Market

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita - 2022

This chapter surveys recent literature on social networks and labour markets, with a specific focus on developing countries. It reviews existing research, in particular, on the use of social networks for hiring and the consequences of networks for on-the-job outcomes, including emerging...

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Selective Exercise of Discretion in Disability Insurance Awards

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Koning, Pierre; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2023

Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using administrative data on applications to the Dutch disability insurance program. We find that discretion is...

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Screening, competition, and job design: economic origins of good jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010

-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … control strategy prevails, while the possibility of screening renders the trust strategy profitable. The introduction of …

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Identification, screening and stereotyping in labour market discrimination

Vendrik, Maarten C. M.; Schwieren, Christiane - 2009

opportunity cost of screening expenditures. This elicits substitution of ingroup identification for screening expenditures, and …

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Bonus culture: Competitive pay, screening, and multitasking

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2013

compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most …

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Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy

Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - 2014

, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is costly not only for the potential husband …

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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...

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