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The report presents all current challenges which the Bulgarian military-educational system is facing in the context of the basic features of the security environment and trends for the first half of the 20th century, by identifying the main problem areas in its functioning. The status and the...
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Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857877
With few exceptions, past research on the glass ceiling has assumed that the barriers to women’s advancement in organizations reflect sex differences in internal promotion processes. This assumption, however, has never before been the subject of close scrutiny. We examine sex differences in...
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Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378334
Peer effects arise in situations where workers observe each others' work activity. In this paper we disentangle the effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we manipulate the observability of performance. In particular, we...
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Labour market integration is a social process suggesting that personality traits are relevant. This paper explores whether immigrants with a higher belief in their ability to control outcomes tend to be more likely to be employed. This trait is known in psychology as the locus of control (LOC)....
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This paper investigates the influence of personality traits on occupational choice using data of the German Socio‐Economic Panel. We conduct multinomial logit analyses to differentiate male managers, professionals, technicians, clerks, service workers, and manual workers with respect to their...
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This Article shall submit to the following methods of analysis at work: observation, interview, questionnaire, diary and describe their activities, techniques for determining the skills (we refer especially to the critical incident technique) and hierarchical task analysis. The discussion is...
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Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158521
This paper analyzes fighter marginal products (MP) and marginal revenue products (MRP) for the largest component of UFC revenues: Content. Most bouts are fought in the presence of fixed content revenues and most fighters go their entire careers without supplying labor services for...
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