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The Economic Status of Asian Americans Before and After the Civil Rights Act

Duleep, Harriet; Sanders, Seth G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In contrast to their relative standing in today's labor market, in 1960 U.S.-born men in all Asian groups earned substantially less than comparable whites. We explore explanations for the wage gap and find that all of the variables that might plausibly account for it, such as Asian/white...

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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Kostov, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …

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Usage of Financial Services in South Africa: Perceptions Matter

Kostov, Philip; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Annim, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

specification to examine the effect of financial perception. Our results suggests that after controlling for endogeneity of choices … and a range of control variables, financial perceptions are robust determinant of access to financial services. The impact … of financial perception however reduces and gradually disappears as one moves up the financial access ladder towards more …

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Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data

Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the …

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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants

d'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our findings show that higher education leads to a more...

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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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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

The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career opportunities to explain this phenomenon. We are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality...

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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...

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