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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 …
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more actively in the team-building task …
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(ii) parties commit to allocating higher offices monotonically with list rank. This model predicts that the volume and geo-diversity …
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We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in smaller units are advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for...
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We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the … birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated … with economic complexity. This holds particularly for diversity among highly educated migrants and for countries at …
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Religious divisions have long played a primary role in major conflicts throughout much of the world. Intergroup contact may increase trust between members of different religions. However, evidence on how inter-religious contact affects individuals’ behavior towards one another is scarce. We...
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others reveal that subjects expect the effect of the gender stereotypes of tasks but underestimate others’ bets on diversity …
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on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany … the gender quota reform on gender diversity. Second, although the Norwegian gender quota has increased the probability of …
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We discuss public pension systems in a multi-period overlapping generations model with gerontologically founded human aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement...
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We study the interplay between intragenerational and intergenerational equity in an economy with two countries producing and consuming from national capital stocks. We characterize the sustainable development path that a social planner would implement to achieve intertemporal egalitarianism. If...
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