
Thinking Bigger: Beyond Brainstorming
Revolutionizing How We Ideate: Leveraging Neuroscience and Choice Theory
Five ways leaders can maintain a high level of trust during a crisis.
The ability to learn rapidly and strategically are key factors to success during a crisis.
Sometimes we communicate more powerfully with our actions, although we are often unaware of it.
As unfunded pension liabilities grow, governments experiment with ways to curb costs. We examine the effect of a representative cost-cutting reform on the retention and productivity of workers. The reform reduced pension annuities and increased penalties for early retirement, projected to save 8 percent of revenues. We leverage administrative records and a discontinuity in the reform to estimate its effect on labor supply. The reform slightly increased worker retention, and we can rule out small attrition effects. The reform had no effect on worker output.
The extent to which men and women sort into different jobs and organizations—namely, gender differences in supply-side labor market processes—is a key determinant of workplace gender composition. This study draws on theories of congruence to uncover a unique organization-level driver of gender differences in job seekers’ behavior. We first argue and show that congruence between leadership gender and organizational claims is a key mechanism that drives job seekers’ interest.