We survey the Personnel Economics literature, focusing on how firms establish, maintain, and end employment relationships and on how firms provide incentives to employees. This literature has been very successful in generating models and empirical work about incentive systems. Some of the unanswered questions in this area — for example, the empirical relevance of the risk/incentive tradeoff and...

With the increasing use of research paper search engines, such as CiteSeer, for both literature search and hiring decisions, the accuracy of such systems is of paramount importance. This paper employs Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for the task of extracting various common fields from the headers and citation of research papers. The basic theory of CRFs is becoming well-understood, but best-p...

This experimental study assesses whether familiarity with an interviewee’s communicative style improves an interviewers’ ability to detect deception. In the experimental treatment, interviewers observed interviewees as they told truths and white lies over the course of ten weeks. During this period, the accuracy of detecting white lies increased from sixty-one percent to eighty-one percent, sug...

On July 13th 2010 the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) set forth a goal of increasing national linkage to care rates from 65% to 85%. A local AIDS Services Organization (ASO) that recently transitioned to a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in New Orleans, LA, USA had a testing cohort of 2,785 with a consistent 2% positivity rate. Prior to hiring a dedicated Patient Navigator in 2012, a...

We present the PDG system, a decision support tool meant to evaluate SMEs from an external perspective in order to produce a diagnosis of their performance and potential, complemented with relevant recommendations on which owners-managers can base their decisions such as hiring new personnel or reinvesting in the company, for instance. We relate the PDG system to decision support systems and ex...

This paper investigates the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices and the age structure of the workforce in a sample of French manufacturing firms. We find evidence that the wage-bill share of older workers is lower in innovative firms and that the opposite holds for younger workers. This age bias affects both men and women. It is also evidenced within occupatio...

Hospital and health system leaders face challenges in employing physicians, but if they take the time to engage with each of their employed or affiliated physician practices, they can convert them into financial assets. There is no simple solution for physician alignment. Achieving successful hospital-physician alignment requires time, but the immediacy of alignment or aggregation due to paymen...