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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
Blau, Francine D. - 2006
Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we …
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders - 2017
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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What Do Performance Appraisals Do?
Cappelli, Peter - 2016
This paper investigates employee performance appraisals using data from a single US firm between 2001 and 2007. We find that performance appraisals are both informative and drive important components of the employment contract. We find that employee appraisal scores vary considerably both...
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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods
Barrett, Garry - 2013
rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top income shares are then considered in tandem with coverage rates. Falls …This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess …
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The Potential use of In-home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys
Leicester, Andrew - 2013
such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …
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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000
The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has affected an individual's place in the earnings distribution....
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Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth
Munasinghe, Lalith - 2000
higher marginal rate of substitution of current wages for future wages. Incidentally, a survey of several hundred …
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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000
The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...
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Worklife Determinants of Retirement Income Differentials Between Men and Women
Levine, Phillip J. - 1999
Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in different jobs than men of the same age. This study examines whether these differences in work-life experiences help explain why many women end up with lower levels of retirement...
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A Bridge to Graduation : Post-Secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams
Lincove, Jane Arnold; Mata, Catherine; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate with a set of basic skills and knowledge. Evidence suggests that a common perverse effect of exit exams is an increase in dropout for students who have difficulty passing...
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