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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … rhetoric used really reveals an author's prejudice on the topic which may also be reflected in data selection and thereby his …
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We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …
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Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...
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perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and … employees (n = 2288). The results indicate that entrepreneurs perceive themselves as less risk averse than managers and …
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We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even …
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This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
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