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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531672
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
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On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination
Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017
We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653225
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Germany's next top manager: Does personality explain the gender career gap?
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2010
The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other objective factors on career opportunities to explain this phenomenon. We are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272655
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Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers' Economic Progress
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022
, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be at the top of their companies' pay ranking or in leadership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426434
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Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace
Haylock, Michael; Kampkötter, Patrick; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2023
experimental games by prior research. Together, the results corroborate the importance of both leadership quality and workforce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377050
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Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career opportunities to explain this phenomenon. We are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466469
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262337
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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006
set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267494
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Services outsourcing and innovation: an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2009
outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277453