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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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Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
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We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and also explore the impact of PA on performance pay...
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detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …
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Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research indicates a substantial reluctance to reject patient requests for sickness certificates. We show that private information on the patient's part creates a conflict between the...
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Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We … focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university … quantitative survey measures - hypothetical versions of experimental tasks - of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are …
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other surveys. Simultaneously, researchers have noted a recent increase in Current Population Survey non-response. We …, as numerous other survey characteristics were revised. We employ a two-stage RDD to relate state-specific refusal … non-citizens and Hispanics reluctant to take the survey. We recommend there be a trial to precisely estimate the question …
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Panel Survey (BHPS) estimates. This fall coincides with the introduction of dependent interviewing to the BHPS, intended to …
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We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures … validate the explanatory power of our survey item outside of the laboratory, by comparing responses across two samples with …
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. We use the FoodAPS survey to examine whether the findings of these studies of general household surveys using one or two … states generalize to a survey with a narrow focus and across many states. First, we study how reporting errors differ from …, we examine geographic heterogeneity in survey error to assess whether we can extrapolate from linked data from a few …
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