American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …

competitiveness; how they predict individual and gender differences in career outcomes including income, holding a leadership position … preferences for competition. In this study, we provide a more detailed view on competitiveness by differentiating between four …

relevance of strategic hiring is shown using the same empirical strategy. At the same time, the test is shown to be invalid if …

leaders are socially concerned, while others expect to distill some personal gain, possibly of non-pecuniary nature. The … lead. Lastly, though voluntary leaders improve efficiency in their team, they are not necessarily more influential than … randomly imposed leaders. …

skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and self-esteem. We use survey data from the US … siblings. We find that having only sisters at age 15 increases substantially the probability of school leadership both for … are more likely to be leaders in school. -- non-cognitive skills ; school behaviors ; siblings …

-player centralities. Leaders are mostly responsible for this effect, while bad apples have little influence. Own Katz-Bonacich centrality … experiments reveal that leadership, as measured by network centrality, mainly captures non-cognitive skills, especially patience … and competitiveness. …

This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or … in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …

leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …