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Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress
Broadberry, Stephen; Ghosal, Sayantan; Proto, Eugenio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper models and analyzes such link: the role of commercialisation in raising efficiency wages as impersonal and anonymous...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959573
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959829
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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
women and men in management positions and other white-collar employees in Germany's private sector 2007. While bivariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466469
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703261
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822390
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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence
Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...
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