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Increasing workplace diversity : evidence from a recruiting experiment at a Fortune 500 company
Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2018 - This version: April 11, 2018
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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Does artificial intelligence help or hurt gender diversity? : evidence from two field experiments on recruitment in tech
Avery, Mallory; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2024
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment is rapidly increasing and drastically changing how people apply … to jobs and how applications are reviewed. In this paper, we use two field experiments to study how AI recruitment tools … demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than …
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Betting on diversity : occupational segregation and gender stereotypes
Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2022
Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...
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Diversity, social goods provision, and performance in the firm
Ellison, Sara; Greenbaum, Jeffrey; Mullin, Wallace P. - 2010
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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Team production, gender diversity, and male courtship behavior
Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2015
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 expected team production if (i) men and women have similar...
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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021
How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge...
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Does birthplace diversity affect economic complexity? : cross-country evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2019
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...
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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on the prevalence of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. The...
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Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data
Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021
The theoretical impact of genetic diversity is ambiguous since it leads to costs and benefits at the collective level. In this paper, we assess empirically the connection between genetic diversity and the performance of sport teams. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of...
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Diversity and conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018
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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