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All on Board? New Evidence on Board Gender Diversity from a Large Panel of Firms
Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2020
across 41 advanced and emerging European economies. We demonstrate that gender board diversity has generally increased, yet … frameworks to demonstrate that few systematic factors are associated with greater gender diversity for both supervisory and …-level gender equality and cultural institutions exhibit differentiated correlations with the presence of women directors in …
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Gender Diversity, Labour in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920431
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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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The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee panel data from Portugal. In the spirit of Baker et al. (1994a,b), we consider different dimensions...
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Top Team Diversity and Business Performance : Latent Class Analysis for Firms and Cities
Nathan, Max - 2014
A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...
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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...
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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S : A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
Belton, Willie J. - 2014
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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