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We theoretically and experimentally analyze the role of verifiability and privacy in strategic performance feedback using a 'one principal-two agent' context with real effort. We confirm the theoretical prediction that information transmission occurs only in verifiable feedbackmechanisms and...
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FeedbackWe theoretically and experimentally analyze public and private feedback in teams that are characterized by different performance technologies. We consider a setting where the principal can provide truthful information on agents' performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find...
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We use data from professional tennis to measure the causal effect of past on current performance for women and men. Identification relies on exogenous shocks to the probability of facing a contested game, which is a previous stage of competition with strong resistance. We find fundamental gender...
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where firms who match with entrant workers have to incur training costs. As a result, firms are biased against entrant …
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The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German … register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have … longer first-job durations but not higher wages than apprentices leaving the training firm. Retention rates, first job …
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This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of … employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects according to the timing of training during …
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employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs …
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This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field …. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are … extent of personnel training in the EU and the United States. …
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of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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