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McGraw-Hill's conquering the GMAT verbal and writing
Pierce, Douglas; Hanks, Wendy Voelkle - 2012 - 2. ed.
This study guide for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) includes practice questions, strategies for sentence correction, reading comprehension and critical reasoning question types, techniques for the Analytical writing essay, and 4 full-length practice GMAT verbal test sections with...
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Time preferences across language groups : evidence on intertemporal choices from the Swiss language border
Herz, Holger; Huber, Martin; Bjedov, Tjaša; Tyahlo, … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 131 (2021) 639, pp. 2920-2954
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Can there be too much information? : heterogeneous responses to information on benefits from language proficiency
Könings, Fabian - 2021
students with high German language skills is not affected, students with medium German language skills are positively affected …Immigrants who have a better command of the host country's language are more likely to be employed and earn higher … wages. Using a survey experiment among international students in Germany, I investigate whether information on the monetary …
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Effects of team diversity on performance, perceptions, and predictions : experimental evidence of gender composition and language
Contreras, Valentina; Orsini, Chiara; Ozcan, Berkay; … - 2022
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Multiple categorization in resume screening : examining effects on hiring discrimination against Arab applicants im field and lab settings
Deraus, Eva; Ryan, Ann Marie; Nguyen, Hannah-Hanh D. - In: Journal of organizational behavior : OB ; the internat. … 33 (2012) 4, pp. 544-570
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Implicit prejudice and ethnic minorities : Arab-Muslims in Sweden
Agerström, Jens (contributor); Rooth, Dan-Olof (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines whether Swedish employers implicitly/automatically hold i) negative attitudes toward Arab-Muslims, an ethnic minority group subjected to substantial labor market discrimination in Sweden, and more specifically ii) associate members of this minority group with lower work...
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Impact of non-economic factors on tax-evasion decisions in Nigeria : an experimental study
Fatokun, Sola - In: Journal of development alternatives and area studies 25 (2006) 1/2, pp. 132-158
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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346563
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …
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