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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success : Evidence from German Soccer
Hentschel, Sandra - 2014
We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …
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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
Forth, John - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such …
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Managerial Performance of a Female-Owned and Home-Based Firm
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi; Platt, Katarzyna Anna; Shim, Hyoung - 2021
Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...
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Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes : A Large Field Study of Managers
Eriksson, Tor - 2017
-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
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Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions
Kleinjans, Kristin J. - 2010
We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point 50 percent answers. Our results indicate that for three of the four...
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There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia
Sinning, Mathias - 2011
This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about … confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians …
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Bias in the Legal Profession : Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination
Antecol, Heather - 2011
Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers' perceptions of discriminatory behavior that are important for understanding many labor-supply decisions. Workers who believe that they have been discriminated against are more likely to...
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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution : Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Cruces, Guillermo - 2011
Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form these perceptions and posits that systematic biases arise from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125167
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The Religious Affiliation and Anti-Semitism of Secondary School Swedish Youths : A Statistical Analysis of Survey Data from 2003 and 2009
Bevelander, Pieter - 2013
Not only in Sweden, but also in several international studies, it has been shown that a non-negligible proportion of the European population subscribes to classical anti-Semitic notions, and that anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that is still very much present in post-1945 Europe, more so in some...
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