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Cut Loose : Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy
Chen, Victor Tan - 2015 - 1st ed.
Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group:...
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Productivity spillovers among knowledge workers in agglomerations : evidence from GitHub
El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Fackler, Thomas; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2024
Software engineering is prototypical of knowledge work in the digital economy and exhibits strong geographic concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. We investigate productivity effects of knowledge worker agglomeration. To overcome existing measurement challenges, we...
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Peer effects and the gender gap in corporate leadership : evidence from MBA students
Hampole, Menaka; Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024
Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions....
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by...
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Learning from peers : evidence from disclosure of consumer complaints
Dou, Yiwei; Hung, Mingyi; She, Guoman; Wang, Lynn Linghuan - In: Journal of accounting and economics 77 (2024) 2/3, pp. 1-24
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Socio-economic change and the broad-basing process in India
Nadkarni, Mangesh Venkatesh (ed.) - 2020
The broad-basing process in India: an introduction / M.V. Nadkarni -- The broad-basing process and Dalits / M.V. Nadkarni -- Whither Dalit movement in Karnataka? Its achievements and challenges / Manohar Yadav -- The broad-basing process and the backward classes / V. Anil Kumar -- The...
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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014
designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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Personal and team features in engineering services: a systematic review
San-José, Marta Yáñez - In: Journal of Socioeconomic Engineering (2014) 1, pp. 35-38
In this systematic review we collect the main articles addressing the team and personal features of engineering … services. This is one of the most complex services where a combination of both skills and abilities are required to join a team … characteristics that make it different from the rest of the tertiary sector, the personal characteristics of team members, the …
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Contributions of young scholars in team-based scientific research
IGAMI, Masatsura; NAGAOKA, Sadao; WALSH, John P. - Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2013
How to design and manage a research team has become an increasingly important issue in knowledge creation in science …. This paper aims to understand how young scholars contribute to scientific research in the context of a research team. We …
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