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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data
Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396743
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Boss competence and worker well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417963
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607378
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How common are bad bosses?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018
Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913230
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916649
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889
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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review
Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015
We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309009
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Informality and long-run growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014
path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230511
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Migration and development : dissecting the anatomy of the mobility transition
Dao, Thu Hien; Docquier, Frédéric; Parsons, Christopher A. - 2016
Emigration first increases before decreasing with economic development. This bell-shaped relationship between … emigration and development was first hypothesized by the theory of the mobility transition (Zelinsky, 1971). Although several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543971