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Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field
Lackner, Mario - 2015
This paper investigates empirically whether decision makers are forward looking in dynamic strategic interactions. In particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values and the ability of their immediate opponent into...
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Leadership at School : Does the Gender of Siblings Matter?
Brunello, Giorgio - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098127
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Leader Identity and Coordination
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910757
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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example
Gaechter, Simon - 2009
, reciprocators contribute more as leaders partly because they are more optimistic than selfish players about the reciprocal responses … of followers. However, even after controlling for beliefs we find that reciprocally-oriented leaders contribute more than … selfish leaders. Thus, we conclude that differing leader contributions by differing types of leader must in large part reflect …
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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083745
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Substitution between Managers and Subordinates : Evidence from British Football
Bridgewater, Sue - 2009
between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153492
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Unemployment Duration and Disability : Evidence from Portugal
Sciulli, Dario - 2009
In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on (re)employment probabilities. We find that disabled persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatric and...
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Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2021
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly...
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317128
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Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2021
This paper proposes a matching model that distinguishes between job creation by existing firms and job creation by firm entrants. The paper argues that vacancy posting and job destruction on the extensive margin, i.e. from firms that enter and exit the labour market, represents a viable...
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