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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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Do employers discriminate less if vacancies are difficult to fill? : evidence from a field experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Diversity and discrimination in the classroom

Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - 2024

What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...

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Does religious diversity improve trust and performance? : evidence from Lebanon

Canaan, Serena; Deeb, Antoine; Mouganie, Pierre - 2022

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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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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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022

This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...

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Undergraduate gender diversity and the direction of scientific research

Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024

Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all-male US universities transitioned to coeducation. Using a generalized difference-in-differences design, we find that coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research...

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The effect of dispatch methods on a recruiting campaign for a business survey : evidence from Germany

Brandt, Przemyslaw; Demmelhuber, Katrin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2020

ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for …

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