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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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The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities … women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles. While many firms and other organizations have set ambitious goals to … increase demographic diversity, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field …
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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 … can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply 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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inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped by the prehistorical out … degree of diversity of their ancestral populations. This effect is sizable: a move from the lowest to the highest level of … diversity in the sample is associated with an increase in the Gini index from the median to the 75th percentile of the …
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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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Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related … leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both …
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According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have …
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We quantify the impact of barriers to international investment, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous investors and imperfect capital mobility. Our model yields a gravity equation for bilateral foreign asset positions. We estimate this gravity equation...
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