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employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …
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This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being … how age diverse groups affect individual performance in professional golf tournaments. The results show that peer and … superior evaluations as well as individual performance are lower in age diverse groups. Further evidence suggests that these …
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has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …
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The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We find support for this claim by analyzing a large dataset from an online card game community, a stylized yet natural setting characterized by self-selection into an uncertain,...
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effect of psychological momentum on performance. We find that men's performance is significantly affected by psychological … line with evidence in the biological literature that testosterone, which is known to enhance performance of both men and …
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The order of actions in contests may generate different psychological effects which, in turn, may influence contestants' probabilities to win. The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence in which the first 'n' moves is the exact mirror image of the next 'n' moves should theoretically terminate any advantage...
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in order to assess how men and women respond to competitive pressure. Comparing their performance in low-stakes versus … results are mixed. Furthermore, even if women show a drop in performance in the more crucial stages of the match, it is in any …
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startup characteristics to forecast the performance of newly started enterprises over a five years' time horizon. The … performance outcomes we consider are involuntary exit, above-average employment growth, a return on assets of above 20 percent … predict startup performance with either high or very high accuracy with the exception of high returns on assets where …
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politician salaries on their performance using a unique law change implemented in 2012 in Turkey. Specifically, the members of … on the performance of the retired MPs. In particular, the overall performance of these MPs was lowered by 12.3 percent of … MPs reduce their performance is through absenteeism. …
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In this paper we provide the first analysis of whether rushed privatizations, usually carried out under fiscal duress, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed...
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