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Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and in the aggregate regional labor force where the...
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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 …
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) hence appear to generally overweigh the benefits of heterogeneity (like greater variety in perspectives or more creativity … is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members …
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relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little … top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region …
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In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …
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I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
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culturally and demographically diverse workforce, seem to outweigh the positive effects of creativity and knowledge spillovers …
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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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To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique linked employer‐employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and tax data. We calculate three distinct measures of...
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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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