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Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets
Suedekum, Jens - 2009
During the last decade there have been marked changes in the composition of the non-native workforce in the German labour market. In particular there has been a notable increase in the diversity of nationalities of which the foreign workforce is composed. In this paper we investigate the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153180
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Team Incentives : Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce …. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … precise when the provision of team-based incentives crowds out the productivity enhancing effect of social connections under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111669
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
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Peer Effects : Evidence from Secondary School Transition in England
Gibbons, Stephen - 2012
We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect...
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Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students : A Story of Language or Ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M. - 2016
There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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Migrants at School : Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159513
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919512
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Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition Among University Students
Bigoni, Maria - 2011
This paper assesses the effect of two stylized and antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on students' effort. We collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122404
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722