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Female workers, male managers : gender, leadership, and risk-taking

Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2019

This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …

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On the effectiveness of elected male and female leaders and team coordination

Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...

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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017

Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...

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Sex differences in managerial style : from individual leadership to organisational labour relationships

Melero, Eduardo (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence from the British 1998 Workplace Employment Relationship Survey (WERS 98 … female managers into specific responsibilities, are avoided in the research presented here. The results show that workplaces … where the presence of women at management is higher are driven in a more democratic fashion, with more interpersonal and …

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Teamwork, leadership and gender

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2018

work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …

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The anatomy of competitiveness

Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2023

competitiveness; how they predict individual and gender differences in career outcomes including income, holding a leadership position …

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Do women shy away from public speaking? : a field experiment

De Paola, Maria; Lombardo, Rosetta; Pupo, Valeria; … - 2020

Public speaking is an important skill for career prospects and for leadership positions, but many people tend to avoid …

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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans

Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2020

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...

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The economics of language : an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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The return to a university education in Great Britain

Sloane, Peter J. (contributor); O'Leary, Nigel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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