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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2010
brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and … ability is always higher in the private sector. As a result, relatively many of the more able managers self-select into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269669
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A theory of expert leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282236
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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment
Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012
mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable association between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287664
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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?
Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - 2012
We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291434
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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004
This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261874
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262364
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Does teaching load affect faculty size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2009
Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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Publishing trends in economics across colleges and universities, 1991 - 2007
Winkler, Anne E.; Levin, Sharon G.; Stephan, Paula E.; … - 2011
There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed the way academic knowledge is produced and exchanged....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286889
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Complex Production Processes and Wage Inequality
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2004
This paper studies how changes in the complexity of the firms' production technologies affect wage differences between and within tasks. In a production process where tasks are complementary, the employer may have an incentive to pay higher wages when using more complex technologies because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261823
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Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs
Vartiainen, Juhana; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2004
This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different complexity using panel data on Finnish metalworkers. These data provide a measure for the complexity of the workers' tasks that can be used to construct a complexity ladder of jobs. We study whether women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261929