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Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions. Against this background, we examine whether there is an...

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Government Size and Economic Growth in an Endogenous Growth Model with Rent-seeking

Wadho, Waqar; Ayaz, Umair - 2017

We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences...

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...

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Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger effect: composite measures and heterogeneity by gender

Adamecz, Anna; Ilieva, Radina; Shure, Nikki - 2025

The Dunning-Kruger effect (DKE) states that people with lower levels of the ability tend to self-assess their ability less accurately than people with relatively higher levels of the ability. Thus, the correlation between one's objective cognitive abilities and self-assessed abilities is higher...

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The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2023

High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities because workers may experience difficulties concentrating or have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of professional tennis players in outdoor singles matches in...

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Impact of TB Epidemic on Worker and Firm Productivity: Regional Perspective from Ukraine

Nizalova, Olena; Shepotylo, Oleksandr - 2023

, focusing on the productivity at the individual level measured by the average wages and at firm level measured by the average … total factor productivity (TFP). We use unique administrative data collected at the level of firms and regions for 2003 … productivity and related inefficien- cies. First of all, both firms and individuals in regions with higher TB prevalence have …

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Employee Training and Firm Performance: Quasi-experimental evidence from the European Social Fund

Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

sales, value added, employment, productivity, and exports. These effects tend to be of at least 5% and, in some cases, 10 …

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Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020

substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …

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Home Sweet Home: Working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

Deole, Sumit S.; Deter, Max; Huang, Yue - 2021

-perceived productivity per hour and an increase in weekly working hours among the employed. The WFH-productivity relationship is stronger for …

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