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Gender Gaps in Performance : Evidence from Young Lawyers
Azmat, Ghazala - 2015
This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...
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Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics : New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
Ganguli, Ina - 2020
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law firms and operates in 23 countries. The sample includes countries at different stages of...
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Are Temporary Jobs Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? A Meta-Analytical Review of the Literature
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the "stepping stone vs. dead end" hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market performances. We select academic papers published on international peer-reviewed journals from 1990 until 2021. Among 78 observations...
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin : The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
Coviello, Decio - 2010
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...
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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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Is Economics a Good Major for Future Lawyers? Evidence from Earnings Data
Winters, John V. - 2017
The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and both without and with controlling for individual...
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The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law : Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Matter, Ulrich - 2015
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a different professional background. This finding is based...
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Temporary Employment Boom in Poland : A Job Quality vs. Quantity Trade-Off?
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2017
Between 2002 and 2015, temporary employment in Poland more than doubled. Poland became the country with the highest … Poland prefer to employ temporary rather than permanent workers because of the lower firing costs, tax wedges, and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947127
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Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers : Evidence from Poland
Kowalik, Zuzanna; Lewandowski, Piotr; Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - 2023
, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the … job satisfaction. Migrants who started a gig job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also … cluster on taxi platforms which offer inferior working conditions. Poland is a New Immigration Destination where ethnic …
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Atypical Work : Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79
Addison, John T. - 2009
Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...
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