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reflect increased diversity in productive skills and, to some extent, a higher rate of innovation. …
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'; ensure equality over time; raise the standard of candidates; reduce homophily to improve diversity of people and ideas; and …
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in …
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university. We focus on two core variables: the share of non-English-speaking students and the diversity within the group of non …-linguistic classroom composition. Non-English-speaking students benefit from a larger diversity in their performance and increase their …
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economically relevant distances among different countries of origin. The typical examples of such metrics are diversity indicators … origin into an aggregate firm-level diversity indicator, built on the United Nations Development Programme's Human … the majority of firms do not discriminate against foreigners. Yet, we find that firms with high diversity largely …
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equilibrium diversity and level of attentionseeking activities are shown. At the normative level, welfare, efficiency and optimal …
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The theory proposed below is that entrepreneurs are jacks-of-all-trades who may not excel in any one skill, but are competent in many. A coherent model of the choice to become an entrepreneur is presented. The primary implication is that individuals with balanced skills are more likely than...
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What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in … within schools to obtain variation in the type of diversity that prevails in a peer group. We combine this with a large …
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Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security expansion on neighborhood cohesion of elders using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of...
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Increasing diversity in higher tiers of occupations is a strongly debated topic and subject to legislation and reform … providing evidence how stakeholders perceive and evaluate diversity. …
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