Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is …

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse, then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on …

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in - otherwise random - team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …

Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of …

-Reforms ; Germany …

in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and is provided to workers by their employer …