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How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model
Arribas-Bel, Daniel - 2014
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes – are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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Top Team Diversity and Business Performance : Latent Class Analysis for Firms and Cities
Nathan, Max - 2014
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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Cooperation in Diverse Teams : The Role of Temporary Group Membership
Grund, Christian - 2015
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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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance : A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander - 2012
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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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development Over Time
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members …
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Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2019
We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of...
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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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All on Board? New Evidence on Board Gender Diversity from a Large Panel of Firms
Tyrowicz, Joanna - 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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Diversity and Conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 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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L'Union Fait La Force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity
Grinza, Elena - 2018
Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation. Most attempts involved metrics that eliminate most of the economically relevant distances among different countries...
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