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Psychological resilience to major socioeconomic life events

Etilé, Fabrice; Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; … - 2020

Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we construct a measure of adult resilience, document its distribution, and test its predictability by...

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Employee identification and wages: on the economics of "affective commitment"

Kampkötter, Patrick; Petters, Lea M.; Sliwka, Dirk - 2020

We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...

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Physical dating violence among college students in Chile

Lehrer, Jocelyn A.; Lehrer, Vivian L.; Lehrer, Evelyn L.; … - 2007

Dating violence is a serious public health concern both per se and because victimization in the young adult years can … be a precursor to more severe incidents of domestic violence later, in the context of cohabitation or marriage. To date …, no quantitative studies have examined dating violence among college students in Chile. To address this gap, a survey on …

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Self-regulation through goal setting

Koch, Alexander K. (contributor); … - 2008

Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral economics: i) Goals serve as reference points for performance. ii) Present-biased preferences...

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Strengthening state capabilities : the role of financial incentives in the call to public service

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Finan, Frederico S.; Rossi, Martín … - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Personality, weak signals, and workplace relevant morality

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2024

Employers use applicant signals to help solve an asymmetric information problem in organizations. In this paper, we examine the impact of validated Dark versus Light personality traits on incentivized behaviors important to organizations: task effort, honesty, and reciprocity. A second study...

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One size fits all? : the interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bortolotti, Stefania; Salicath, Daniel; … - 2024

Incentives are supposed to increase effort, yet individuals react differently to incentives. We examine this heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and performance in a real effort task. We analyze the...

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Female hires and the success of start-up firms

Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009

In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...

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Do employment quotas explain the occupational choices of disadvantaged minorities in India?

Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - 2011

This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment...

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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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