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Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes - are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
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In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
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confirmed in a real effort experiment. -- Team ; transparency ; peer pressure ; free-riding ; incentives ; inequity aversion …
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We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort … weakly lower wages. -- Team work ; self-selection …
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requires reasonably accurate public information concerning the behavior of each player. We provide a model of team production … willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group … reciprocity in teams. -- team production ; public good ; monitoring ; punishment ; experiment …
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