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Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes
Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2016
the economy. I combine administrative data on income and leadership teams at publicly traded firms with a regression … admitted to these programs account for 41% of leadership positions and 39% of top 0.1% incomes. Admission raises the number of … leadership positions students hold by 44% and their probability of attaining a top 0.1% income by 51%. However, these gains are …
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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
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Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover
Carter, Susan - 2016
Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987143
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean S. - 2014
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
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The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity : A Field Experiment with Airline Captains
Gosnell, Greer - 2019
Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet, causal evidence regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for high-skilled workers in the developed world. In an eight-month field experiment measuring the...
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education
Neidell, Matthew - 2010
We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to account for the endogeneity of peer group formation. We find statistically significant and robust spillover...
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Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...
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Institutional Aspects of High Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany
Burda, Michael C.; Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2021
The sustained rise in German unemployment since 1973 poses a problem of critical importance for the world economy. Fewer than two decades ago, Germany boasted an average unemployment rate of under 1% and imported labor to relieve chronic labor shortages. By the mid-1980s, unemployment had risen...
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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2010
, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in …
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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Burgess, Robin - 2012
eight years of institutional change in post-Soeharto Indonesia. Increases in the numbers of political jurisdictions are …
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