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terms of promotions and exits, and the scope for careers. We find a large degree of diversity in most of these practices …
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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context … inconsistency of some previous predictions and the varying magnitudes of the diversity impact. The empirical findings reconcile more …
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A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this … top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region. …
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This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance...
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Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that … gender diversity while individual incentive with subjective performance may have an opposite effect. Fourth, a rat race model …, corporate social responsibility practices may increase gender diversity. We temper the findings by identifying three major …
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innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …
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Evidence on schools' performance is confined to comparisons across schools, usually based on value-added measures. We adopt an alternative approach comparing schools to observationally equivalent workplaces in the rest of the British economy using measures of workplace performance that are...
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. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we …
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complementarity is affected by the firm’s technological and output market conditions. Guided by the theoretical exploration, we …
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This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...
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