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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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We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from … redistribution. Finally, we show that redistribution and diversity are linked non-linearly: moderate levels of diversity impede …
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phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity … along the migratory routes have lower folkloric diversity. This pattern is consistent with the compression of genetic … of differential cultural diversity and economic development across the world. …
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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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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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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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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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This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men … derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes … behavior of male team members, gender diversity has the biggest effects in young teams, and monetary incentives crowd-out the …
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productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence … relative importance. We then focus on diversity and find stronger results in sectors characterized by more complex production …
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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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