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Discrimination in the Labor Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers
de Haan, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011
evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce … competition between workers of different groups, the non-discrimination equilibrium ceases to be stable. In line with this … theoretical observation, we find systematic discrimination in the experimental treatment with competition. Nevertheless, a …
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; 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...
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How to reduce discrimination? Evidence from a field experiment in amateur soccer
Dur, Robert; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022
A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance : A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040491
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Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; ter Weel, Bas; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western...
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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments : A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - 2011
We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners of the...
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Cycles and Multiple Equilibria in the Market for Durable Lemons
Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir - 2000
We investigate the nature of market failure in a dynamic version ofAkerlof (1970) where identicalcohorts of a durable good enter the market over time. In the dynamicmodel, equilibria withqualitatively different properties emerge. Typically, in equilibriaof the dynamic model, sellerswith higher...
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Continuous Time Trading in Markets with Adverse Selection
Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir - 2000
We investigate the nature of the adverse selection problem in a market for adurable goodwhere trading and entry of new buyers and sellers takes place in continuoustime. In thecontinuous time model equilibria with properties that are qualitativelydifferent from thestatic equilibria, emerge....
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