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Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...

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Image and Misreporting

Ewers, Mara; Zimmermann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to misreporting of private information in contexts where truthful reports maximize monetary...

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Students' Academic Self-Perception

Chevalier, Arnaud; Gibbons, Steve; Thorpe, Andy; Snell, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ misperception of their own and other’s ability, thereby increasing the expected costs to studying. Among high school...

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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …

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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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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers

DiNardo, John; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

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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Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe

Jurajda, Stepán; Paligorova, Teodora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches

Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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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