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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9
Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013
information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …
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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - European Regional Science Association - 2014
innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied. The existing work on the effect of immigrants on innovation is … the innovation of the receiving countries, it has much less to say about the general effect of immigrants, or of low …-educated immigrants. In this paper, we make an attempt to partly fill the gap concerning the effects of overall immigration on innovation …
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New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Eriksson, Tor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private sector firms merged to a large matched employer-employee database. Selfmanaged teams, project...
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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...
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Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career opportunities to explain this phenomenon. We are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality...
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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...
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Restrictive Immigration Policies and Latino Immigrant Identity in the United States
Massey, Douglas; Sánchez, Magaly Sánchez R. - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
The United States is presently characterized by rising anti-immigrant sentiment, repressive immigration enforcement, and the negative framing of Latinos as threatening and undesirable. As a result, social boundaries between immigrants and natives have hardened and boundary crossing has become...
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Understanding Attitudes Towards Migrants: A Broader Perspective
Kleemans, Marieke; Klugman, Jeni - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
Migration is a controversial issue. Reading of the popular media in virtually any country, alongside an array of opinion polls suggest that residents see controls on immigration as essential and that people would prefer to see existing rules on entry tightened rather than relaxed. This stands in...
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Immigration, Ethics and the Capabilities Approach
Risse, Mathias - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
Often, immigration debates are conducted under the presumption that immigration policies must be justifiable only to those who already live in the respective country. Alas, reflection on the justifiability of immigration policies to those excluded becomes ever more important in a politically and...
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