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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641779
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Performance pay, competitiveness, and the gender wage gap : evidence from the United States
McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter; Pan, Jessica - 2014
Evidence that women are less likely to opt into competitive compensation schemes in the laboratory has generated speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97, we show that women are less likely to be employed in...
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Executive compensation and competition in the banking and financial sectors
Cuñat, Vicente (contributor); Guadalupe, Maria (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002035589
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The impact of immigration on the educational attainment of natives
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children, lowering the return to native education and discouraging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629646
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Competition vs. monopoly in the religious marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2013
religion. The "New Paradigm" views separation of Church and State, leading to competition in the religious marketplace, as …. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly … structure. -- religion ; religious marketplace ; new paradigm ; monopoly ; competition ; Judaism …
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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor);  … - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative …
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Politico-economic causes of labor regulation in the United States : rent seeking, alliances, raising Rivals' costs (even lowering one's own?), and interjurisdictional competition
Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2006
review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481858
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Discrimination as a competitive device : the case of local television news
Myers, Caitlin K. (contributor) - 2005
Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered information on television stations in 25 U.S. markets to examine the decisions of competing firms...
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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
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Competitive preferences among Asians in the U.S.
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2020
The median income of Asian households is the highest of all racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. In a laboratory experiment, we examine whether Asians are more willing to compete and have greater competitive preferences than non-Asians. Both with and without controls for performance, performance...
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