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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender. We find that … teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We explore various … mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance (including …
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Wage Dispersion in Russia
Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentialsin the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the sixyears since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257024
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Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
The authors adopt the Five-Factor Model of personality structure to explore how personalityaffected the earnings of a large group of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin highschools in 1957 and were re-interviewed in 1992. All five basic traits–extroversion,...
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257185
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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to seek Further Challenges
Buser, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257541
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256430
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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'American Economic Review' (2006). Volume 96, issue 2, pages 270-274.<P> Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255987
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256636
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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
Albrecht, James; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light onthe sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257638
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Risk Attitudes and Profits among Small Enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
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