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This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can … recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in Bertrand bidding have a distinct advantage over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269602
This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271232
Potential workers are classified as unemployed if they seek work but are not working. The unemployed population contains two groups—those with jobs and those without jobs. Those with jobs are on furlough or temporary layoff. This group expanded tremendously in April 2020, at the trough of the...
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This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969325
This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can … recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in Bertrand bidding have a distinct advantage over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029648
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … the second midterm grade is 0.03s (s = the grade's standard deviation) for the recipients of recognition, and 0.15s for … (itself unaffected), and decreases with the distance to the cutoff grade for recognition, reaching a significant 0.44s for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333269
unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task …. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work. We find that … recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398335
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … the second midterm grade is 0.03s (s = the grade's standard deviation) for the recipients of recognition, and 0.15s for … (itself unaffected), and decreases with the distance to the cutoff grade for recognition, reaching a significant 0.44s for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884116
unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task …. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work. We find that … recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884268