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Graham, John R. - 2010

that executive compensation is linked to these perceived "competence" ratings. Our analysis explores these findings in more …-facedness" of the CEO. That is, more mature looking CEOs are assigned higher "competence" scores. This finding is potentially …. Essentially, the "look" of competence says very little about effective competence …

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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

Munshi, Kaivan - 2008

with superior observed characteristics and with greater public good provision. This improvement in leadership competence …

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Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge : Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry

Garicano, Luis - 2004

What role do hierarchies play with respect to the organization of production and what determines their structure? We develop an equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services....

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Bad Politicians

Caselli, Francesco - 2001

We present a simple theory of the quality (competence and honesty) of elected officials. Our theory offers four main … than those of high-quality citizens (competence), and/or because they reap higher returns from holding office (honesty …

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Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine? A Theory of Degenerate Autocracy

Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

incumbent; with higher stakes, the incumbent puts more emphasis on loyalty than competence. Our theory sheds light on the …

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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation : Which Technologies? Which Skills?

Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Gregoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

we show how a task approach to labor informs policy and research on the worker skills needed for the energy transition …

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Incentives and Worker Behavior : Some Evidence

Weiss, Andrew - 1987

This paper is concerned with three types of incentive programs. First, individual wage incentives that cause a worker's efforts to have a major effect on his pay. Second, group incentives in which the pay of an individual is determined by the output of a group of workers-a group can be as small...

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Carrots and Sticks : Pay, Supervision and Turnover

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1987

Large and persistent differences across industries in wages paid for given occupations have commonly been observed. Recently, the efficiency wage model (EWM) has been advanced as an explanation for these wage differentials. The shirking version of the EWM assumes a trade-off between...

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Motivated Errors

Exley, Christine L. - 2019

In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...

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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018

We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...

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