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Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets
Suedekum, Jens - 2009
During the last decade there have been marked changes in the composition of the non-native workforce in the German labour market. In particular there has been a notable increase in the diversity of nationalities of which the foreign workforce is composed. In this paper we investigate the effects...
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Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs : an application to Brexit
Vandenbussche, Hylke; Connell, William; Simons, Wouter - 2017
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Team incentives : evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2012
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Inferring hawks and doves from voting records
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Mahieu, Ronald J.; Raes, Louis - 2013
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Incentives in the public sector : some preliminary evidence from a UK government agency
Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001816150
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Is distance dead? : face-to-face communication and productivity in teams
Battiston, Diego; Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Kirchmaier, Tom - 2017
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Team Incentives : Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce …. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … precise when the provision of team-based incentives crowds out the productivity enhancing effect of social connections under …
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
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Relational warm glow anmd giiving in social groups
Scharf, Kimberly A.; Smith, Sarah - 2014
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Peer Effects : Evidence from Secondary School Transition in England
Gibbons, Stephen - 2012
We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect...
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