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Income Distribution and labour Market Discrimination : A Case Study of Namibia.
Ekstrom, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we …-economic variables that affect the Namibian income distribution. he aim of the second study is to examine the differences in earnings … between males and females in manufacturing, service and public sector. The estimated earnings differences are decomposed into …
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Income Distribution and Labour Market Discrimination: A Case Study of Namibia
Ekström, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we … second study is to examine the differences in earnings between males and females in manufacturing, service and public sector …. The estimated earnings differences are decomposed into endowment and discrimination components using techniques by Oaxaca …
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Height and Leadership
Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...
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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap
Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...
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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals
Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Our study combines a near-exhaustive sample of CEOs of Swedish companies with data on their cognitive and non-cognitive ability and height at age 18. Although CEOs, and large-company CEOs in particular, have better traits than the population on average, they are neither exceptional in any of the...
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment
Lindqvist, Erik; Westman, Roine - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
badly in the labor market in the sense of long-term unemployment or low annual earnings lack noncognitive but not cognitive …
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training.
Ottersten, E.K.; Lindh, T.; Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
A Quality-adjusted specification of labor is suggested which allow firms training to effect labor efficiency. To assess the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function.
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Rates of Depreciation of Human Capital Due to Nonuse
Gustafsson, Siv - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977
experience and years of non-experience on earnings. One result is that both women and men experience salary decreases by labor …
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