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Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2011
What are the consequences of electing a female leader for policy and political outcomes? We answer this question in the context of U.S. cities, where women's participation in mayoral elections increased from negligible numbers in 1970 to about one-third of the elections in the 2000's. We use a...
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Human Resource Management Systems and the Performance of U.S. Manufacturing Businesses
Ichniowski, Casey - 2021
This paper estimates the effects of systems of human resource management policies on the performance of U … human resource management system with flexible job design, formal training, and workplace communication mechanisms have the … highest levels of economic performance. Nonunion businesses with ''Union-style" human resource management systems involving …
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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
Graham, John R. - 2011
management styles (i.e., manager fixed effects in corporate policies). Finally, the method used in the paper has a number of …
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History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
We study the evolution of the social norm of "cooperation" in a dynamic environment. Each agent lives for two periods and interacts with agents from the previous and next generations via a coordination game. Social norms emerge as patterns of behavior that are stable in part due to agents'...
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The Economics of Fraudulent Accounting
Kedia, Simi - 2010
We argue that earnings management and fraudulent accounting have important economic consequences. In a model where the … costs of earnings management are endogenous, we show that in equilibrium, bad managers hire and invest too much in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762395
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Layoffs, Lemons and Temps
House, Christopher L. - 2012
We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of labor demand with adverse selection. Firms learn the quality of newly hired workers after a period of employment. Adverse selection makes it costly to hire new workers and to release productive workers. As a result, firms hoard labor and under-react to...
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Worker Replacement
Menzio, Guido - 2010
Consider a labor market in which firms want to insure existing employees against income fluctuations and, simultaneously, want to recruit new employees to fill vacant jobs. Firms can commit to a wage policy, i.e. a policy that specifies the wage paid to their employees as a function of tenure,...
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Personnel Economics : Hiring and Incentives
Oyer, Paul - 2010
conform to theory. We survey some literature in this area and suggest areas for further research …
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The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity
Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Prennushi, Giovanna - 2021
reliance on incentive pay. This paper provides empirical evidence to address the question: do these human resource management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249693
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
advanced management practices. Many of these practices – including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives – are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing firms with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …
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