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Nayar, Pramod K. - eSocialSciences - 2008

The â€˜sexual Internetâ€™ is clearly a social space where multiple economies â€“ commercial, political and libidinal â€“ intersect. It is a phenomenon that requires exploration from multiple angles: economic, psychological and discursive. This essay highlights the multiple...

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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge

Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders’ characteristics. We show that a strong predictor...

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Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …

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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence

Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...

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Aid to Fragile States: Do Donors Help or Hinder?

Browne, Stephen - eSocialSciences - 2010

The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the wrong times and with the wrong attitudes, even...

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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments

Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....

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Towards Gender-Balanced Leadership: What has not Worked and What May?

Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2010

leadership in this sector and the reasons of lack of female leaders. …

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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

leader’ model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge …

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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?

Mercier, Marion - eSocialSciences - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of political leadersâ€™ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A …

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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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