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This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men … expected team production if (i) men and women have similar expected ability, and (ii) monetary incentives to exert effort are … behavior of male team members, gender diversity has the biggest effects in young teams, and monetary incentives crowd-out the …
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The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods may be important elements of the smooth functioning of an office, but...
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This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
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The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities. White males occupy most high-profile positions in the largest U.S. corporations whereas African Americans, Hispanics, and women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles....
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This paper uses data from a firm with team production to investigate the association between workers' productivity …, risk aversion and preferred bonus scheme (team or individual). Standard economics make a strong prediction in this case …. Workers persistently producing above the team average should vote for an individual bonus. The only concern that may moderate …
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this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change – but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …
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Collective contests are examined permitting heterogeneity of stakes within every competing group. Our first concern is whether unequal distribution of stakes in a group can enhance its win probability. Our second concern is whether a large stake in a group can be individually disadvantageous. We...
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evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker … plant began paying the two downstream workers for their combined output (team pay). This led to a modest output reduction in …. Workers' behavior before conflict, during conflict, and under team pay is predicted by a model of taste-based discrimination …
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investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly … punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team …, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals …
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We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likability … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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