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Why do we need longitudinal survey data?
Joshi, Heather - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Information from longitudinal surveys transforms snapshots of a given moment into something with a time dimension. It illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger generations. It can track the different pathways of men...
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Eliminating discrimination in hiring isn't enough
Alston, Mackenzie - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)
While many firms have recognized the importance of recruiting and hiring diverse job applicants, they should also pay attention to the challenges newly hired diverse candidates may face after entering the company. It is possible that they are being assessed by unequal or unequitable standards...
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How should teams be formed and managed?
Owan, Hideo - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
The keys to effective teamwork in firms are (1) carefully designed team-formation policies that take into account what level of diversity of skills, knowledge, and demographics is desirable and (2) balanced team-based incentives. Employers need to choose policies that maximize the gains from...
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Do family and kinship networks support entrepreneurs?
Nordman, Christophe Jalil - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Family and kinship networks are important in helping people get jobs and start companies, as statistics for developing countries show. Promising new research has begun to assess the positive and negative effects of these family and kinship ties on entrepreneurial success. To what extent, and...
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Gender differences in corporate hierarchies
Kauhanen, Antti - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
The gender wage gap is largely due to men and women holding different kinds of jobs. This job segregation is partly … driven by gender differences in careers in corporate hierarchies. Research has shown that the careers of men and women begin …. This divergence of career progress explains a large part of the gender wage gap. Understanding how and why the careers of …
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Gender differences in corporate hierarchies
Kauhanen, Antti - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)
The gender wage gap is largely due to men and women holding different kinds of jobs. This job segregation is partly … driven by gender differences in careers in corporate hierarchies. Research has shown that the careers of men and women begin …. This divergence of career progress explains a large part of the gender wage gap. Understanding how and why the careers of …
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How should teams be formed and managed?
Owan, Hideo - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) August, pp. 1-10
The keys to effective teamwork in firms are (1) carefully designed team-formation policies that take into account what level of diversity of skills, knowledge, and demographics is desirable and (2) balanced team-based incentives. Employers need to choose policies that maximize the gains from...
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Do firms benefit from apprenticeship investments?
Lerman, Robert - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Are apprenticeships valuable for firms? Economists once thought that firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often competing, firms. Now, researchers recognize that most firms benefit from investing in apprenticeship training. Firms gain from the...
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Do youth mentoring programs change the perspectives and improve the life opportunities of at-risk youth?
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America have been providing positive role models and building social skills for more than a century. However, most formal mentoring programs are relatively novel and researchers have only recently begun to rigorously evaluate their impact on...
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Impact of bilingual education on student achievement
Chin, Aimee - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
More than 4.4 million students enrolled in US public schools participate in English language learner programs because of linguistic barriers to learning in regular classrooms. Whether native language instruction should be used in these programs is a contentious issue. Recent studies, using...
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