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Weinberg, Bruce A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

information leads people to choose tasks that raise expected output, however extreme overconfidence leads people to undertake … tasks that are excessively challenging. Consistent with our results, psychologists have found that moderate overconfidence …

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Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.

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Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories

Lake, Henrietta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...

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Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human resource concepts. These tests often need detailed firm-specific data. Repetition and comparison of results is key in finding...

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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data

Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Nielsen, Niels Westergaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....

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ICT Skills and Employment: A Randomized Experiment

Blanco, Mariana; López Bóo, Florencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills has on the labor market of two Latin-American cities: Buenos Aires and Bogota. Using cross-sectional data from an experiment that randomly assigned the ICT skills line...

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Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance

Blasco, Sylvie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching...

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Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours

Ryan, Martin; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

-orientation and conscientiousness. In addition, future-orientation, and in particular conscientiousness, determine lecture attendance …

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The Importance of Early Conscientiousness for Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the British Cohort Study

Prevoo, Tyas; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This research estimates models of the importance of conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes. We use measures of … conscientiousness at age 16 to explain adult wages and other outcomes, such as crime, health and savings behaviour. We use several waves … conscientiousness and adult outcomes. Measurement error is corrected for by applying IV-techniques, errors-in-variables estimators and …

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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …

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