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Compensation, Diversity and Inclusion at the World Bank Group
Das, Jishnu - 2017
This paper examines salary gaps by gender and nationality at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 using a unique … three main findings. First, 76 percent of the $27,400 salary gap across the average male and female staff at the World Bank … Group can be attributed to composition effects, whereby men entered the World Bank Group at higher paid positions …
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Job Quality and Poverty in Latin America
Brummund, Peter - 2017
Labor market dynamics have played a significant role in the remarkable social gains experienced across Latin America over the recent past. Assessing the quality of employment, beyond the perspective of income, to include other fundamental aspects of jobs --such as whether jobs are secure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966871
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Effect of Stress on Later-Life Health : Evidence from the Vietnam War Draft
Cawley, John - 2017
A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during the early stages of life on later-life health. This … paper contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early … adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction in the United States during the Vietnam War. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956218
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Improving Mental Well-Being and Productivity of Small-Medium Entrepreneurs in Fragile, Conflict and Violence Affected Areas : Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trainings Help?
Saraf, Priyam - 2018
entrepreneurs, without diversified capital, stable sources of income, or delegation opportunities, tend to suffer from more stress … and anxiety compared with their peers in salaried jobs or in larger firms. Chronic stress is found to deplete their … hamper business performance. Utilization of cognitive-behavioral therapy approaches to mitigate stress and build …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912340
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Better than Most : Teacher Beliefs About Effort and Ability in Uganda
Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2019
Do teachers have accurate beliefs about their effort and ability? This paper explores this through a survey experiment in public-private partnership schools in Uganda, wherein teacher self-beliefs are contrasted with their beliefs about other teachers in the same school. The study finds that, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899313
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Was Weber Right? The Effects of Pay for Ability and Pay for Performance on Pro-Social Motivation, Ability and Effort in the Public Sector
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2017
This paper examines the effects of pecuniary compensation on the ability and motivation of individuals inorganizations with non-pecuniary or pro-social missions. In particular, the paper compares flat pay systems, unrelated with ability or effort, to two other systems that are considered...
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Love the Job... Or the Patient? Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2018
A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927595
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Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries?
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2017
Are jobs created by foreign investors good jobs? The evidence reviewed in this article is consistent with the view that jobs created by FDI are good jobs, both from the worker's and the country's perspective. From the worker's perspective, this is because such jobs are likely to pay higher wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973070
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Effectiveness of Interventions Aimed at Improving Women's Employability and Quality of Work : A Critical Review
Todd, Petra - 2017
This paper examines the effectiveness of a variety of policy interventions that have been tried in developing and transition economies with the goal of improving women's employability and quality of work. The programs include active labor market programs, education and training programs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975004
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Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation
Kim, Yeon Soo - 2019
This paper finds that informal workers are more likely to have inferior work conditions, but do not necessarily report worse subjective well-being. Starting with lower wages, but also with less regularity of hours and paid vacation, informal workers have higher incidence of envelope payments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864370