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Turning Up the Heat: The Discouraging Effect of Competition in Contests [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 2020 We study contests in which contestants are homogeneous and have convex effort costs. Increasing contest competitiveness, by making prizes more unequal, scaling up the competition, or adding new con...
Fang, D, Noe, T, Strack, P
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Unemployment invariance hypothesis, added and discouraged worker effects in Canada [PDF]
International Journal of Manpower, 2018 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the long-run relationship between unemployment rate (UR) and labor force participation rate (LFPR) for men and women in Canada. Given that there are differences in the URs and participation rates of men and women, the authors perform separate analysis for them also.
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin, TANSEL, AYSIT
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Maniform episode related to memantine therapy: unraveling of an unknown adverse side effect?
Psicosomática y Psiquiatría, 2021 Introduction: Memantine, a type of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist, is a drug approved by Food and Drug Administration to the treatment of moderate-to-severe Alzheimer disease (AD).
Catarina da Costa Campos, Joana Mesquita
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Labor force participation and the discouraged worker effect [PDF]
Empirical Economics, 2012 This article analyzes labor force participation with particular reference to the discouraged worker effect. Discouraged workers are those who will search for work when the labor market is tight but do not search for work when the labor market is slack because they consider their chances of finding a suitable job too low.
John K. Dagsvik +2 more
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Diagnosis from a Flexibility Perspective: A Grounded Theory Study in the Public Sector [PDF]
پژوهشهای مدیریت عمومی, 2022 The present study diagnoses Human Resource Management (HRM) practices flexibility in the public sector using the grounded theory method. In the 14 in-depth and semi-structured interviews conducted in this study, samples that included experts in HRM were ...
Mojgan Adnan Rad +3 more
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Determinants of coping styles of people with Parkinson’s Disease
npj Parkinson's Disease, 2023 Little is known about how people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) cope with stressful life events. We examined the determinants of specific coping strategies and whether specific choices have any impact on quality of life (QoL).
Eva M. Prins +5 more
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Externalities in Recruiting [PDF]
, 2013 External recruiting at least weakly improves the quality of the pool of applicants, but the incentive implications are less clear. Using a contest model, this paper investigates the pure incentive effects of external recruiting.
Bieberstein, Frauke von +2 more
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Middle East Current Psychiatry, 2023 Background Women are more vulnerable to presenting with major depressive disorder (MDD) as they seem more sensitive to stressful life events (SLE). Few studies describe the effect of SLE on the development of avoidant/passive behavioral patterns (PBP) of
Curt Hemanny +5 more
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Journal for STEM Education Research, 2023 STEM fields, such as physics, increasingly rely on complex programs to analyse large datasets, thus teaching students the required programming skills is an important component of all STEM curricula. Since undergraduate students often have no prior coding
Tessa Charles, C. Gwilliam
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A two-agent model of sequential search and choice [PDF]
, 2016 This paper extends the standard sequential search model by allowing the agent who compiles the choice set via search (the “searcher”) to differ from the agent who chooses from the set (the “chooser”). I show for a general joint distribution of the agents’
Mauring, E
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