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Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?

Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2011

understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors …

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

this paper is to analyze previouslyunconsidered characteristics, in particular, personality traits and tasks performed at …

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Grading, Minimum Quality Standards, and the Labelingof Genetically Modified Products

Lapan, Harvey E.; Moschini, Giancarlo - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

In this paper we relate the economics of labeling genetically modified (GM) products to thetheory of grading and minimum quality standards. The model represents three stages in thesupply chain (farm production, marketing handlers, and final users) and allows explicitly for theaccidental...

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‘Voice’ and the Facts and Observations of Experience

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

The facts of social sciences are ones that stem from scientificexpertise, but in the social world, everyone is their own expert.Everyone lives in society, and experiences either first-hand, orclosely second-hand, the same phenomena that social scientistsinvestigate. Consequently, people are not...

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Foundations for measuring equality: A discussion paperfor the Equalities Review

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

in values and preferences, andthe importance of individual agency. A broad interpretation of equality ofopportunity, such …

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Personality as Predictor of Occupational Choice:Empirical Evidence from Germany

Nieken, Petra; Störmer, Susi - Universität <Bonn> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher … - 2010

This paper investigates the influence of personality traits on occupational choice using data of theGerman Socio … workers, and manual workers with respect totheir personality as measured by the Big Five. The data provide extensive …

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Identifying Personality Traits that Enhance Trust between Organisations - An Experimental Approach

Fahr, René; Irlenbusch, B. - 2006

of organisations. Personality traits of subjects are elicited by a personality questionnaire (Cattell's 16 PF-R) which is … well established in personnel psychology. Linking the assessed personality traits with the observed behaviour in the game … allows us to derive detailed personality profiles for different behavioural patterns. Personality profiles differ …

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Management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation: An international comparison

Schwalbach, Joachim; Brenner, Steffen - Institut für Management <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> - 2001

This paper deals with the relationship between management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation.

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The Dynamics of School Attainment of England’s EthnicMinorities

Wilson, Deborah; Burgess, Simon M.; Briggs, Adam - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linkedtest score records to document the evolution of attainment through school fordifferent ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First,we show that, controlling for personal characteristics, all...

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The Economic Determinants of Truancy

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school ageyouth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as thesolution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive currentreturns from activities that reduce time spent at school. The model isestimated using a US...

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