and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and to promote …

-stocked bookshops than the diversity of published titles and that debutantes do not face big barriers to entry. One should be even more …

shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity …

The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social … revenues, costs, and profits. We explore this next logical question: how does diversity affect ultimate performance? We have a … office-level measures of diversity and performance over that period. We find some evidence that more homogeneous offices …

This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s … schools with severe recruitment problems in the past and located in one specific region. The empirical approach exploits … for teachers. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the wage premium increased the recruitment rate by 6 …

Recruitment is often delegated to senior employees. Delegated recruitment, however, is vulnerable to moral hazard … relates to the candidates’ ‘type’. Delegation is then superior to direct (owner) recruitment and offering ‘tenure’ or … guaranteed seniority to the senior employee is neither always desirable for the owner nor necessary to ensure good recruitment …