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Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Schneider, Frédéric - 2019
tightly controlled laboratory labor market experiment demonstrates that prior employment information allows employers to … field experiment that varies the frequency of job changes in applicants' resumes and find that those with fewer job changes … receive substantially more callbacks from prospective employers. Third, a survey experiment with Human Resources professionals …
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Social framing effects in leadership : preferences or beliefs?
Cartwright, Edward; Drouvelis, Michalis - 2020
We experimentally study the impact of framing effects in a repeated sequential social dilemma game. Our between-subjects design consists of two group level ("Wall Street" vs. "Community") and two individual level ("First (Second) Movers" vs. "Leaders (Followers)") frames. We find that average...
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Are women less effective leaders than men? : evidence from experiments using coordination games
Heursen, Lea; Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2020
We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318370
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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment … behavior. Moreover, appointing leaders who are likely to have acted dishonestly in a preliminary stage of the experiment yields …
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment
Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2020
being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263343
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Public goods, signaling, and norms of conscientious leadership
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2016
experiment (Jack and Recalde, J. Public Econ, 2015) but cannot be obtained in previous theoretical models of voluntary public …
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Laboratory measure of cheating predicts misbehavior at school
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André - 2015
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014
first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with three distinct social groups, capitalists, private workers and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for...
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