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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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ratings, higher promotion rates, and larger salary increases …
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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 …
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I examine the effects of the introduction of the Spouse's Allowance to the Canadian Income Security (IS) system on the retirement behavior of couples. This program was effectively targeted at females in couples attempting to live on a single pension. It allowed qualifying spouses to receive the...
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The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product …
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of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …
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women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … women, especially nonpatentees, were significantly more likely than men to be associated with innovations in consumer final … products or work outside the home pursued such improvements to benefit their families. The patterns suggest that framing women …
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Using detailed administrative records, we find that, on average, women receive lighter sentences in comparison with men …
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professional ambition and tendency for leadership. Neither men nor non-single women changed their answers in response to peer …Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions could signal personality traits, like ambition … they believed their classmates would not see their responses, single and non-single women answered similarly. However …
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Recent work suggests that women are more responsive to negative feedback than men in certain environments. We examine … 2009-2016 to test whether women are more sensitive to grades than men, and whether the gender composition of major …, faculty gender composition, and major returns have little effect on major switching behaviors, and that women and men are …
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