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Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. It is important in explaining attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. We examine how economic theory measures social identity and its effects on preferences...
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Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the … hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course …-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has …
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The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities … increase demographic diversity, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field … different types of signals regarding the extent and manner in which the employer values diversity among its workers. We find …
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maintain their identity. This diversity must be institutionally supported rather than be undermined by standardization and …
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to differ economically (average wages) and culturally (average world views and their diversity). The model shows that … when regions have similar wages and diversity of world views. …
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shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity …
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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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Research spanning various disciplines underscores the significance of cultural diversity in facilitating cross … diversity has remained uncharted: has the coalescence of diverse ancestral background in the formation of individuals' mindset … diversity among an individual's ancestors may reduce the scope for ancestral cross-pollination, and may diminish the individual …
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can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and … to be substantially biased against women to result in a lower level of gender diversity than found without AI. …
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What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in … within schools to obtain variation in the type of diversity that prevails in a peer group. We combine this with a large …
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