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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes : An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021
The population of most developed societies is graying. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these labor-force...
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The Hidden Cost of Flat Hierarchies on Applicant Pool Diversity : Evidence from Experiments
Hurst, Reuben; Lee, Saerom (Ronnie); Frake, Justin - 2022
This paper investigates how an organization’s formal hierarchy affects the gender diversity in its applicant pool. One perspective based on theories of gendered organizations suggests that, because women may perceive “flat” organizational structures with few hierarchical levels as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298421
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Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination: evidence from a choice experiment
Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Derous, Eva - 2021
Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549727
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Gender differences in competitive positions : experimental evidence on job promotion
Peterlé, Emmanuel; Rau, Holger A. - 2017
This paper analyzes gender differences in access to competitive positions. We implement an experiment where workers can apply for a job promotion by sending a signal to their employer. We control for gender differences in anticipation of discrimination in a treatment where a computer randomly...
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Ethnic background and the value of self-employment experience: evidence from a randomized field experiment
Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2020
In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive response from employers. For male applicants, this holds...
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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583687
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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607388
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Intuitive versus contemplative : do entrepreneurs differ in their decision-making style from managers and employees?
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision … conventional wisdom, we find that entrepreneurs have a stronger subjective Faith in Intuition than others. Their actual action … choices are partly in line with this: entrepreneurs make indeed more intuitive choices than managers, but are equally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739416
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Is it sex or personality? : the impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
This paper investigates whether differential treatment of men and women in the labor market is due to unobservable differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex-discrimination typically control for human capital (formal education,...
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Is it sex or personality? : The impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001534734