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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
Garnero, Andrea - 2013
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity...
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The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation : Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data
Ozgen, Ceren - 2014
Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important question for firms and for governments to ask whether there are some productivity-enhancing...
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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
Bahar, Dany - 2020
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with higher birthplace diversity by one standard deviation are more economically complex by 0.1 to 0.18...
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
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The Impact of Increased Cost-Sharing on Utilization of Low Value Services : Evidence from the State of Oregon
Gruber, Jonathan - 2017
In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...
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Teams Make You Smarter : Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
Maciejovsky, Boris - 2010
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision … tasks, implying that team experiences enhance individual problem-solving skills …
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Team Incentives and Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido - 2015
We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1 … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits …
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Interactions between Workers and the Technology of Production : Evidence from Professional Baseball
Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - 2021
performance of his peers, but decreases with the quality of the team's pitching. Furthermore, a pitcher's performance increases … with the pitching quality of his teammates, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are …
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Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams : The Role of Social Ties
De Paola, Maria - 2016
basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …
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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2011
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...
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