Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms...

We augment standard ln earnings equations with variables reflecting unmeasured attributes of workers and measured and unmeasured attributes of their employer. Using panel employee-establishment data for US manufacturing we find that the observable employer characteristics that most impact...

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four distinct time intervals spanning the period 1985-2009. Unlike standard wage models,...

This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...

Anhand spannender Geschichten aus dem Unternehmensalltag lernen Sie etwas über Kommunikation, Führung und Zusammenarbeit: Georg Schwinning, erfahrener Manager und Coach, nutzt Storytelling, um mit Sachverstand und Humor Kommunikationsprobleme im Job zu lösen. Viele Probleme mit Kollegen und...

On-site im Büro, off-site im Mobile-Office oder Home-Office - hybride Arbeitswelten sind keine vorübergehende Entwicklung. Viele Unternehmen werden die Arbeitsmodelle weiter flexibilisieren und Kostensenkungspotenziale nutzen. Doch bei zunehmender Distanz ist Führung wichtiger denn je. Das...