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Team structure and the effectiveness of collective performance pay

Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma; Vergé, Thibaud - 2012

. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …. In this paper we analyse the strategic interactions across subteams created by a two-level team structure, in order to … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …

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Ethnic diversity and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado; … - 2016

This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To...

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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia

Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019

This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...

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Displacement, diversity, and mobility : career impacts of Japanese American internment

Arellano-Bover, Jaime - 2019

One of the largest population displacement episodes in the U.S. took place in 1942, when over 110,000 persons of Japanese origin living on the West Coast were forcibly sent away to ten internment camps for one to three years. Having lost jobs and assets, after internment they had to reassess...

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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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Evidence for a two-women quota in university departments across disciplines

Janys, Lena - 2020

Increasing diversity in higher tiers of occupations is a strongly debated topic and subject to legislation and reform in professional organizations in many countries. I use a novel method for detecting implicit quotas in workplaces, college admissions or birth patterns, relying exclusively on...

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Immigrant inventors and diversity in the age of mass migration

Campo, Francesco; Mendola, Mariapia; Morrison, Andrea; … - 2020

A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...

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All on board? : new evidence on board gender diversity from a large panel of firms

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Terjesen, Siri; Mazurek, Jakub - 2020

Using a unique database of over 20 million firms over two decades, we examine the industry sector and national institution drivers of the prevalence of women directors on supervisory and management boards in both public and private firms across 41 advanced and emerging European economies. We...

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Birds, birds, birds : co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, and voluntary turnover

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Zwick, Thomas - 2019

We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover. Fitting duration models for workers' job-to-job moves that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large...

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Diversity and conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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