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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
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How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness
Niederle, Muriel - 2010
Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A consequence is that few women enter and win competitions. Using experimental methods we examine how affirmative action affects competitive entry. We find that when women are...
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Peer Advice on Financial Decisions : A Case of the Blind Leading the Blind?
Ambuehl, Sandro - 2018
Previous research shows that many people seek financial advice from non-experts, and that peer interactions influence financial decisions. We investigate whether such influences are beneficial, harmful, or simply haphazard. In our laboratory experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly...
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The Value of Bosses
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a team's total output by more than would … adding one worker to a nine member team. Workers assigned to better bosses are less likely to leave the firm. A separate …
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments--which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities …
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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams
Juster, Thomas - 2014
explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and … individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … a rich set of complementary data on: national team performance, player-level performance, performance of foreign players …
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Co-Worker Complemetarity and the Stability of Top Management Teams
Hayes, Rachel M.; Oyer, Paul; Schaefer, Scott - 2021
the composition of top management teams when a key member of the team (the CEO) departs. Our empirical analysis … establishes several facts that are consistent with co-worker complementarity being an important determinant of management team …
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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants : The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research
Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2010
While the cumulative nature of knowledge is recognized as central to economic growth, the microeconomic foundations of cumulativeness are less understood. This paper investigates the impact of a research-enhancing institution on cumulativeness, highlighting two effects. First, a selection effect...
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Generalized long memory processes, failure of cointegration tests and exchange rate dynamcis
Smallwood, Aaron D.; Norrbin, Stefan C. - In: Journal of applied econometrics 21 (2006) 4, pp. 409-417
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