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July 30, 2024

Soft skills can mitigate hiring discrimination

Study finds that signaling teamwork ability reduces ethnic bias against disfavored job applicants in Malaysia

  • competition
  • discrimination
  • ethnicity
  • hiring
  • soft skills
  • Amanina Abdur Rahman
  • Christian Valencia
  • Sarah Janzen
  • Yashodhan Ghorpade
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September 5, 2017

Do managers need more masculine or more feminine skills?

 Among top business managers women are still a rare sight. The reasons are complex and subject to heated debates. One […]

  • business
  • CEO
  • Denmark
  • executives
  • gender
  • gender gap
  • gender stereotypes
  • management skills
  • managers
  • stereotype
  • Nina Smith
  • Tor Eriksson
  • Valdemar Smith
Research

June 21, 2017

The economic value of Breaking Bad: How misbehavior in school pays off for some kids

By Nicholas W. Papageorge (Johns Hopkins University and IZA) There is growing interest in how schools can shape children’s non-cognitive […]

  • behavioral traits
  • classroom
  • earnings
  • education
  • non-cognitive skills
  • personality
  • school
  • schooling
  • skills
  • Flavio Cunha
  • Greg J. Duncan
  • James Heckman
  • Jora Stixrud
  • Nicholas W. Papageorge
  • Rachel Dunifon
  • Sergio Urzua
  • Susanne M. Schennach
  • Tim Kautz
  • Victor Ronda
  • Yu Zheng
Research

February 20, 2015

Sports and exercise boost labor market performance and earnings

Many public policy campaigns aim at encouraging people to be more physically active. Sports and exercise enhance physical and mental […]

  • active labor market policy
  • earnings
  • employment
  • fitness
  • health
  • IZA World of Labor
  • soft skills
  • sports
  • Dan-Olof Rooth
  • Michael Lechner

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