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Leadership Skills and Wages
Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …
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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel stärker betont, Bildung endlich zum Top-Thema macht, die Lebensarbeitszeit fair verlängert und … je ein hohes Maß an Eigenverantwortlichkeit des Einzelnen in Bildung, Ausbildung und Beruf und die Bereitschaft, sich …
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NRW 2025: Vom Hort der alten Industrien zum Magnet der Moderne?
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Hombach, Bodo; Merz, Friedrich; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Die Arbeitsgruppe Beschäftigung der von NRW-Ministerpräsident Jürgen Rüttgers eingesetzten "Zukunftskommission" hat umfassende Empfehlungen für die künftige Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Nordrhein-Westfalen vorgelegt. Das Papier der von IZA-Direktor Klaus F. Zimmermann geleiteten...
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Vollbeschäftigung ist keine Utopie: Arbeitsmarktpolitisches Programm des IZA
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Schneider, Hilmar; Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Das Arbeitsmarktprogramm des Instituts zur Zukunft der Arbeit benennt die wichtigsten Aufgaben der Arbeitsmarktpolitik für die nächste Legislaturperiode und darüber hinaus. Thematische Schwerpunkte des IZA-Programms sind unter anderem die Schaffung von Erwerbsanreizen durch das...
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Agenda 2020: Strategien für eine Politik der Vollbeschäftigung
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
vor: (1) Bildungsreform: Das Bildungssystem muss der Bedeutung frühkindlicher Bildung stärker Rechnung tragen als bisher …
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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
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On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …
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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge
Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders’ characteristics. We show that a strong predictor...
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