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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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manufacturing. The diversity of countries of origin contributes to innovation only in the services sectors, confirming that in …The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …
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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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In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching...
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This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
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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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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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To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity … linked employer‐employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and …
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migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level … whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years …
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Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
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