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Kim Jiyoung, born 1982, and the labour market: Overeducation, gender, income and life satisfaction. Panel evidence from Korea

Ahmed Lahsen, Amina; Piper, Alan T.; Thiele, Ida-Anna - 2020

increased (and is also considerably higher than the OECD average). Such increases raise the possibility of overeducation if the … amount of jobs which require such education do not increase at a similar pace. Among the consequences of overeducation are … also face more discrimination in the labour market, the consequences of overeducation are likely to differ by gender. Using …

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Employee Performance and Mental Well-Being: The Mitigating Effects of Transformational Leadership during Crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental wellbeing has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...

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Do performance ranks increase productivity? Evidence from a field experiment

Ashraf, Anik - 2019

Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate them or make them wary of outperforming peers. This...

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Delegation, promotion, and manager selection

Häusinger, Benjamin - 2019

Promotions serve two purposes. They ought to provide incentives for employees and to select the best employee for a management position. However, if non-contractible managerial decision rights give rise to private benefits and preference misalignment between managers and the firm, these two...

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Reputational Concerns and Advice-Seeking at Work

Heursen, Lea; Friess, Svenja; Chugunova, Marina - 2023

We examine the impact of reputational concerns on seeking advice. While seeking can improve performance, it may affect how others perceive the seeker's competence. In an online experiment with white-collar professionals (N=2,521), we test how individuals navigate this tradeoff and if others'...

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Inefficient Labor Market Sorting

Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2023

A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management...

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Committee Deliberation and Gender Differences in Influences

Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2023

This paper provides empirical evidence on the aggregation of information in committees. We analyze unique data from the decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first conduct independent one-to-one interviews and give...

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Interview sequences and the formation of subjective assessments

Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2024

Interviewing is a decisive stage of most processes that match candidates to firms and organizations. This paper studies how and why a candidate's interview outcome depends on the other candidates interviewed by the same evaluator. We use large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring...

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Different background - Similar strategies: Recruitment in Tanzanian-African and Tanzanian-Asian companies

Egbert, Henrik; Fischer, Gundula; Bredl, Sebastian - 2010

The literature on enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa provides evidence that there are significant differences between companies run by members of the majority population and those run by members of minorities. Differences are frequently related to size, age, and certain success indicators....

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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge

Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexitymakes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are welldefinedobjectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders’ characteristics. We showthat a strong predictor of a...

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