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Bonuses and Employment in Japan [PDF]
Japan has a relatively unique system of labor compensation. Most Japanese workers are paid large bonuses twice a year. This paper examines the cyclical movement of bonuses compared with wages and the relation of bonuses to employment in the context of ...
Martin L. Weitzman, Richard B. Freeman
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Effects of Automated Interventions in Programming Assignments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
, 2018 A typical problem in MOOCs is the missing opportunity for course conductors to individually support students in overcoming their problems and misconceptions.
Agrawal Akshay +10 more
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Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
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Calvin's Restrictions on Interest: Guidelines for the Credit Crisis [PDF]
Calvin’s view on the legitimacy of interest has had a great impact on the economic development of Western society. Although Calvin took a fundamentally positive attitude to interest, he also proposed several restrictions on the charging of interest.
Graafland, J.J.
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The Relative Effects of Merit Pay, Bonuses, and Long-Term Incentives on Future Job Performance (CRI 2009-009) [PDF]
, 2009 Extant compensation literature has indicated that pay-for-performance can influence employee performance. There is little research, however, that differentiates the effects of certain forms of pay-for-performance plans on future performance.
Park, Sanghee, Sturman, Michael C.
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Tax Minimization Moderate Transfer Pricing
Riset Akuntansi dan Keuangan IndonesiaThe Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) sniffed out potential tax evasion through a transfer pricing scheme on alleged illegal nickel ore export practices to China.
Lidya Manda Sari, Nelsi Arisandy
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Count-Based Exploration with the Successor Representation
, 2019 In this paper we introduce a simple approach for exploration in reinforcement learning (RL) that allows us to develop theoretically justified algorithms in the tabular case but that is also extendable to settings where function approximation is required.
Bellemare, Marc G. +2 more
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Bonus-malus Systems in Vehicle Insurance
Procedia Economics and Finance, 2015 AbstractActuaries in insurance companies try to design a tariff structure that will fairly distribute the burden of claims among policyholders. Therefore they try to find the best model for an estimation of the insurance premium. The paper deals with an estimate of a priori annual claim frequency and application of bonus-malus system in the vehicle ...
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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