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Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377314
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Ethnic diversity and team performance: A field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287629
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Ability dispersion and team performance: A field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon Charles; van … - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291418
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959569
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Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959802
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in – otherwise random – team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959852
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Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479324
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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - 2013
entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293184
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401794
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328895