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Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain...
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This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at...
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in …
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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 available data, a great variety of diversity indicators have emerged …
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In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
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or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …
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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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a major policy challenge. Teachers play a key role in keeping students attached to school, yet classroom diversity poses … program operate is a school-wide mentorship role acquired by trained teachers, which has broad impact on raising diversity …
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Religious divisions have long played a primary role in major conflicts throughout much of the world. Intergroup contact may increase trust between members of different religions. However, evidence on how inter-religious contact affects individuals' behavior towards one another is scarce. We...
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Increasing diversity in higher tiers of occupations is a strongly debated topic and subject to legislation and reform … providing evidence how stakeholders perceive and evaluate diversity. …
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