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One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
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This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to engage in online tests. Our identification strategy exploits i) weekly variation in incentives to determine their impact on student effort, and ii) controlled cross-group variation...
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precise feedback on the co-worker's output, and also vary whether the two workers can communicate. We find that allowing …
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employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … the production period, and continuously updated feedback. The pay schemes are a piece rate payment scheme and a winner …-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer …
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In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by …
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worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful in order to make the feedback from the firm …
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regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …
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Demographic change is perceived as a threat for wealth rather than a challenge in Germany. The debate on skilled labor shortage is a proof for this view. The paper surveys the most important German studies on skilled labor shortage. Meanwhile, a consensus on solutions has emerged in academia....
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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business set-up and expansion or increased income. At a disaggregate level by outcome groups, providing a package of training … business training for existing entrepreneurs than other interventions to improve business performance. …
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