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Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare … results based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that there are significant gender differences in … personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466469
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Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance: Is There an Association?
Goodall, Amanda H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital performance, there is no published empirical work on the hypothesis. This cross-sectional study reports the first evidence. Data are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151014
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A Theory of Expert Leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279304
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands
Praag, Mirjam van; Cools, Kees - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompeting explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762239
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Individual Determinants of Work Attendance: Evidence on the Role of Personality
Störmer, Susi; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We investigate the influence of personality as measured by the Big Five personality scale on absenteeism using representative data for Germany. In particular, the 2005 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel provides detailed information on socio-economic background characteristics along with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506082
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959608
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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone’s hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279348
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The Glass Door: The Gender Composition of Newly-Hired Workers Across Hierarchical Job Levels
Hassink, Wolter; Russo, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008547893
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959558
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Milgrom, Eva M. Meyersson - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
gender attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762318