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The Efficiency of Slacking Off: Evidence from the Emergency Department

David C. Chan, Jr. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Work schedules play an important role in time-sensitive production utilizing workers interchangeably. Studying emergency department physicians in shift work, I find two types of strategic behavior induced by schedules. First, on an extensive margin, physicians "slack off" by accepting fewer...

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Subjective Evaluation of Performance Through Individual Evaluation Interview: Empirical evidence from France

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Greenan, Nathalie; Urdanivia, Michal - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Individual evaluation interviews have become a widespread practice. 52% of employees in French manufacturing firms over … 50 employees declared an annual individual evaluation interview in 1997. However whereas the problem of constructing an … optimal contract with subjective evaluation (which is defined simply as a signal in most papers) receives a large attention …

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Is Drug Coverage a Free Lunch? Cross-Price Elasticities and the Design of Prescription Drug Benefits

Gaynor, Martin; Vogt, William; Li, Jian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Recently, many U.S. employers have adopted less generous prescription drug benefits. In addition, the U.S. began to offer prescription drug insurance to approximately 42 million Medicare beneficiaries in 2006. We use data on individual health insurance claims and benefit data from 1997-2003 to...

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The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics: Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists

Oyer, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Each year, graduate students entering the academic job market worry that they will suffer due to uncontrollable macroeconomic risk. Given the importance of general human capital and the relative ease of publicly observing productivity in academia, one might expect unlucky graduating cohorts'...

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Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s

Frydman, Carola; Molloy, Raven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Executive pay fell during the 1940s, marking the last notable decrease in the past 70 years. We study this decline using a new panel dataset on the remuneration of top executives in 246 firms. We find that government regulation--including explicit salary restrictions and taxation--had, at best,...

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Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

Freeman, Richard B.; Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...

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Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey

Kaushal, Neeraj; Grossman, Michael; Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

evidence that schooling changed women's attitudes towards gender equality. …

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On The Origins of Gender Human Capital Gaps: Short and Long Term Consequences of Teachers’ Stereotypical Biases

Lavy, Victor Chaim; Sand, Edith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers’ gender biases on boys’ and girls’ academic … teachers’ biases favoring boys have an asymmetric effect by gender— positive effect on boys’ achievements and negative effect … on girls’. Such gender biases also impact students’ enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school …

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The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality since 1900

Eggleston, Karen Nisa; Fuchs, Victor R.; Cullen, Mark R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival....

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U.S High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations

Murnane, Richard J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …

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