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Substitution between managers and subordinates: evidence from British football

Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - 2009

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...

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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment

Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012

leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and …

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Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans

Corinth, Kevin; Larrimore, Jeff - 2024

Economic Supplement. At age 36-40, Millennials had a real median household income that was 18 percent higher than that of the … progress for Generation X and Millennials is due to their stalled growth in work hours - holding work hours constant, they … Millennials under age 30 has remained robust as well, although their income growth largely results from higher reliance on their …

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Individual risk attitudes: new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey

Dohmen, Thomas - 2005

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...

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Is early learning really more productive? The effect of school starting age on school and labor market performance

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn - 2005

In Sweden, children typically start compulsory school the year they turn seven. Hence, individuals born just before or just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school at different ages. We exploit this source of exogenous variation, to identify the effects of age at...

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Cooperation, competition, and risk attitudes: an intergenerational field and laboratory experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2007

The population of most developed societies is 'graying'. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these...

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The critical period hypothesis for language learning: what the 2000 US census says

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2007

A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study examines the relevance of the critical period to English proficiency among immigrants in the US. It uses microdata from the 2000 US Census, a model of language acquisition from...

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An experimental investigation of age discrimination in the Spanish labour market

Riach, Peter A.; Rich, Judy - 2007

In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the older waiters, corresponded to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for...

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On the emergence of toyboys: Equilibrium matching with ageing and uncertain careers

Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - 2007

Toyboy marriages (where the female partner is at least 5 years older than her male partner) have grown threefold since the 1970s in the United States and Britain. This paper examines this phenomenon using an equilibrium search framework in which becoming successful in the labour market takes...

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Job creation and job destruction over the life cycle: the older workers in the spotlight

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Chéron, Arnaud; Langot, François - 2007

This paper extends the job creation - job destruction approach to the labor market to take into account the life-cycle of workers. Forward looking decisions about hiring and firing depend on the time over which to recoup adjustment costs. The equilibrium is typically featured by increasing...

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