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The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision Making: Evidence from the Field
Apesteguia, Jose; Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 1, pp. 78-93
We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affects their economic performance. We study a large business … women are significantly outperformed by all other gender combinations, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Looking … development, and invest more in social sustainability initiatives than does any other gender combination. <i>This paper was …
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959809
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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election
Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269056
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The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field
Apesteguia, Jose; Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affect their economic performance. We study a large business … significantly outperformed by any other gender combination, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Looking across the performance … pricing strategies, invest less in R&D, and invest more in social sustainability initiatives, than any other gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547360
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754464
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Swaziland
Manyatsi, Absalom M.; Thomas, Timothy S.; Masarirambi, … - In: Southern African agriculture and climate change: A …
The Kingdom of Swaziland covers an area of 17,364 square kilometers bordered on the north, west, and south by the Republic of South Africa and on the east by Mozambique. The two major towns or cities are Mbabane, the capital city, and Manzini. The 2007 census put the population at 1.02 million,...
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Hachigonta, Sepo; Nelson, Gerald C.; Thomas, Timothy S.; … - In: Southern African agriculture and climate change: A …
According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Le Treut et al. 2007, 96), climate is defined as average weather over a period of time, ranging from months to millions of years. Climate is usually described in terms of the mean and variability...
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Gender diversity in teams
Azmat, Ghazala - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
legal mandates. Data on team dynamics and gender differences in preferences (risk-taking behavior, taste for competition …, prosocial behavior) show how gender composition influences group decision-making and subsequent performance through channels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764634
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Gender and the labour market: evidence from experiments
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Lab experiments are an increasingly valuable tool for understanding differences in how men and women are treated in the labour market. Dr Ghazala Azmat and Professor Barbara Petrongolo explore what has been learned about the extent to which differences in men and women's pay and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765692
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Gender and the labor market: what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126362