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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018 - This version: February 13, 2018
Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...
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Heat and team production : experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Garg, Teevrat; Jagnani, Maulik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2024
Despite the increasing importance of occupations that rely heavily on interpersonal interaction, the impact of heat on team production relative to individual production remains largely unexplored. Heat can affect team and individual production in distinct ways, potentially increasing aggression,...
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Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020
Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223854
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Determinants of voluntary bank disclosure : evidence from Japanese shinkin banks
Spiegel, Mark; Yamori, Nobuyoshi - 2004
Disclosure is widely regarded as a necessary condition for market discipline in a modern financial sector. However, the determinants of disclosure decisions are still unknown, particularly among banks. This paper investigates the determinants of disclosure by Japanese Shinkin banks in 1996 and...
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Complementarities of HRM practices : a case for employing multiple methods and integrating multiple fields
Englmaier, Florian; Schüßler, Katharina - 2015
We provide an overview over different literature streams that aim at explaining the origin of persistent productivity differences across organizations by variation in the use of management practices. We focus on human resource management (HRM) practices, document gaps in the literature, and show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492325
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Old before their time : the role of employers in retirement decisions
Bello, Piera; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2015
Do elderly workers retire early voluntarily, or are they induced (or even forced) by their employees? To establish the relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the EU - the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA). A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406562
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Cultural stereotypes of multinational banks
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2022
trust of residents of a bank's countries of operation in the residents of a potential target country of investment has a … cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463528
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Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability?
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
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The East German wage structure after transition
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2008
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806001
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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility
Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ;...
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