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How diverse can spatial measures of cultural diversity be? : results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model

Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2014

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 : a matter of measurement

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015

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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Learning through coworker referrals

Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019

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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Helping under a combination of team and tournament incentives

Danilov, Anastasia; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Harbring, Christine - 2019

We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model … we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite … intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. This problem is mitigated …

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Healer or gatekeeper? : physicians' role conflict when symptoms are non-verifiable

Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - 2017

Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research indicates a substantial reluctance to reject patient requests for sickness certificates. We show that private information on the patient's part creates a conflict between the...

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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task

Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015

provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

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Black sheep and walls of silence

Mühlheußer, Gerd (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009

To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...

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Becker meets Ricardo : multisector matching with social and cognitive skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - 2012

individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production …, but specialization requires communication and coordination between team members, and individuals with more social skills …

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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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