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This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. We provide a prototype of such a course, and we show how … gender-aware content and pedagogical tools can complement a course based on a standard textbook or set of articles. We also …
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research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …
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This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women …
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This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using … data from international top-level women's soccer, we provide evidence that male coaches show a lower level of risk …-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped age effect that is independent of gender, meaning that young and …
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We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the …-headed microenterprises, particularly those with a higher baseline level of profits, to close the gender profit gap in performance and skills … relative to their male counterparts. The main drivers of improved business performance are improved financial management …
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This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women …
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This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their...
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A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the first trade-off. Due to lack of...
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This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood's analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between our two datasets - the AWIRS and the WERS - we reach one central point of agreement and one...
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We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and also explore the impact of PA on performance pay...
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