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This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...
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reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the conflict of interest between the controlling and the minority owners …
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minority. It also expands income inequality within the minority community. This incentivizes decentralized attempts to … expropriate producers which, through cumulative causation, both immiserize and criminalize the minority. An underclass thus … results, with disproportionate minority presence. …
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underprivileged ethnic minority group (Santal) that is severely discriminated against. We randomly assign participants into groups … competitive entry and its effect varies by ethnic group. Members of the ethnic minority group are less likely to compete in groups … where they are a numerical minority than when all competitors are co-ethnic, whereas the reverse is true for members of the …
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the relative size of a minority in a given region. In particular, I argue that inter-ethnic social distance disadvantages … smaller ethnic groups in human capital acquisition and that these efficiency differentials systematically expose minority and … majority individuals to different incentives as concerns their choice of skills. As a result, minority and majority individuals …
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) affects socio-economic outcomes. In the context of minority-majority relations, social distances and segregation determine the …. Furthermore, I establish that there is a threshold level of ICT below which all minority individuals prefer segregated … neighborhoods and above which some minority individuals choose to integrate, thereby reaping the efficiency benefits of social …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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the candidate and in the second case, executives who support the firm's culture constitute a minority of available …
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