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Who makes a good leader? : social preferences and leading-by-example
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - 2008
We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...
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Female leadership and workplace climate
Alan, Sule; Corekcioglu, Gozde; Kaba, Mustafa; Sutter, … - 2023
Using data from over 2,000 professionals in 24 large corporations, we show that female leaders shape the relational culture in the workplace dierently than male leaders. Males form homophilic professional ties under male leadership, but female leadership disrupts this pattern, creating a less...
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Entrepreneurial couples
Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - 2014
We study possible motivations for co-entrepreneurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and post-dissolution private and financial...
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Enhancing employability by responding to work motives : lessons from a field experiment among Israeli ultra-religious women
Goldfarb, Yael; Neuman, Shoshana - 2020
of low-employability populations: the design of tailor-made training programs that respond to work motives; coupled with … employment rates than other Israeli women. The motives behind their occupational choices were explored based on data collected by … a field experiment. Factor Analysis was then employed to sort out the motives behind their occupational choices, and …
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Tax morale and the role of social norms and reciprocity : evidence from a randomized survey experiment
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a social-norm treatment have lower tax morale relative to a control group while participants in a...
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Labor-market conditions and leadership styles
Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2020
Why do some leaders use praise as a means to motivate workers, while other leaders use social punishment? This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles depend on the prevailing labor-market conditions for workers. We show that the existence of a binding wage floor...
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Job contact networks and wages of rural-urban migrants in China
Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
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Informal search, bad search? : the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Wang, Le; Zhang, Min - 2017
these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human …
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Parental education and wages : evidence from China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …
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The regulation of migration in a transition economy : China's Hukou system
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2009
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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