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Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance
spatial health disparities economic geography stratified duration model
2012/10/19
Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities
in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large,
with a...
Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis
school outcomes PISA fiscal decentralization political decentralization
2012/10/23
The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries....
Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
ethnic diversity team performance field experiment entrepreneurship learning
2012/10/23
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field exper...
The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data
tenure-performance profiles experience earning on-the-job peer effects productivity call centres
2012/10/19
In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data that contain detailed information on individual workers' performance. We find that a 10 per cent increase in tenure leads...
Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms
labour contract fixed-term contract indefinite-term contract production frontier
2012/10/18
The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 emplo...
HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS
HRM practices family business loyalty job security financial performance
2012/10/24
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents...
International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006
international trade firm performance empirical studies, survey
2012/10/24
The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work ...
Role Selection and Team Performance
role selection in teams team performance takeover game winner’s curse communication experiment
2012/10/25
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the ta...
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
immigrants social contacts occupational status income panel data
2012/10/26
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the eff...
Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance
job anxiety stress absence labour productivity
2012/10/26
This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological ill...
Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests
gender competition incentives GRE high stakes low stakes test score gap
2012/10/30
This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real G...
Paid to Perform? Compensation Profiles under Pure Wage and Performance Related Pay Arrangements
monitoring, tenure efficiency wages
2012/10/31
Whilst existing efficiency wage literature assumes detection probabilities of shirkers are exogenous, this paper finds them positively and endogenously dependent on non-shirkers' effort. It shares the...
Performance Appraisal: Dimensions and Determinants
performance appraisal monitoring establishment characteristics dimensions of appraisal
2012/10/31
The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that infl...
The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores
immigrants school performance natives
2012/11/1
We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant...
Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
alcohol post-secondary education minimum legal drinking age
2012/11/1
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach i...