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ownership change, in particular when product market competition is weak. Further, increased competition reduces the gender wage …Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the … market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are …
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We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...
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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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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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Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...
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beauty is an asset for political candidates in intra-party competition and more so for candidates on the right in low …
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whole nations to increased technological competition. <p> Informational requirements in the experimental economy are such … competition should remain a classroom exercise. The workable industrial policy is much more diffuse and should be oriented towards …
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It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women … easy to summarize. First, the gender wage gap is clearly smaller under piece- than under time-rate work. According to the …
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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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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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