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The Family Gap in Career Progression
Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …
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Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In the United States happiness, on average, varies positively with socio-economic status; is fairly constant over time; rises to midlife and then declines; and is lower among younger than older birth cohorts. These four patterns of mean happiness can be predicted rather closely from the mean...
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Is Self-Esteem a "Double Edged Sword"? Self-Esteem and the Onset of Adolescent Sexual Activity
Favara, Marta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Self-esteem has been conceptualized as a "social vaccine". The belief is that high self-esteem can inoculate young people, against vulnerability to a wide range of social illnesses. This study gives a contribution in the understanding of the causal relation between self-esteem and sexual...
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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany
Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his...
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Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
Flabbi, Luca; Macis, Mario; Moro, Andrea; Schivardi, Fabiano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-representation of women at the top: for example, if women became CEOs of firms with at least 20% female employment, sales per worker …
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Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
Janssen, Simon; Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
assign women and men to jobs and occupations. The investigation of a subsample of performance pay workers for whom we are …
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Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules
Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando A.; Simmons, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...
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Promotions, Demotions, Halo Effects and Earnings Dynamics of American Executives
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past earnings growth on components of current earnings and earnings growth using a large panel of US...
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Mergers of Equals and Unequals
Smeets, Valerie; Ierulli, Kathryn; Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of conflict between employees from the two merging firms. Such conflict can arise for several reasons, including firm-specific human capital, corporate culture, power, or...
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