We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …

leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and … mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable association between …

'; ensure equality over time; raise the standard of candidates; reduce homophily to improve diversity of people and ideas; and …

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in … leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers? ?leadership? skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …

conclude that our results support the hypothesis that gender-diversity in leading positions is an advantage for start-up firms. …

whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years … 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 …

The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using … between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender and ownership status based sub-group analyses suggest the inverse … positive link between workplace union density and gender diversity in workplaces with a female majority. The findings in this …

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify the contribution of workers' diversity in cultural background, education … in different technological areas (extensive margin). We find that ethnic diversity plays an important role in propelling …

Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity in terms of cultural background … the firms' production function (Ackerberg et al. 2006), we find that labor diversity in education significantly enhances a … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …