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Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations
Jerrim, John - 2020
There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...
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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance
Fang, Tony - 2014
This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly" face. The government influence plays an important role in...
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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021
an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-Up Firms
Weber, Andrea - 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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Entrepreneurship : Origins and Returns
Berglann, Helge - 2009
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited...
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Determinants of Business Success : An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Robb, Alicia - 2007
Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...
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Start-Up Success of Freelancers : New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim - 2006
If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David - 2019
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards : Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success
Burks, Stephen V. - 2014
We collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring cognitive skills (non-verbal IQ, numeracy, backward induction/ planning), and economic (time, risk) preferences, with 100 students at a small public undergraduate liberal arts college...
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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim - 2014
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
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