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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...

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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...

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The Impact of a Culturally Diverse Workforce on Firms' Market Size : An Empirical Investigation on Germany

Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012

There is evidence from the literature that firms enjoy higher productivity levels when the workforce employed is culturally more diverse. It is an open question whether this gain is utilized to shift the supply curve and set lower prices, in order to achieve a higher demand and possibly higher...

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Sequential or Non-sequential Recruitment?

van Ommeren, Jos; Russo, Giovanni - 2004

This paper examines the recruitment process of firms. We test whether firms search sequentially or non …. We distinguish between different types of recruitment methods. We find that the sequential hiring is rejected for a … applications by job seekers. Informal recruitment methods tend to imply sequential search. …

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The Emergence of Social Structure: Employer Information Networks in an Experimental Labor Market

Gerxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - 2011

We use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the trustworthiness of job candidates, when worker opportunism is possible. The experimental data show that substantial information sharing emerges. Two types of information...

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Recruitment in a Monopsonistic Labour Market : Will Travel Costs Be Reimbursed?

Rouwendal, Jan; van Ommeren, Jos - 2007

model of a monopsonistic employer who determines an optimal recruitment policy in a spatial labour market with search … frictions and show that partial reimbursement of commuting cost will in general be an element of the recruitment policy. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049935

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326395

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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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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The Power to Protect: Household Bargaining and Female Condom Use

Cassidy, Rachel; Bruinderink, Marije Groot; Janssens, Wendy - 2020

Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower bargaining power, meaning that men's preferences may constrain household adoption when decisions are joint. When low female bargaining power constrains adoption of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427158

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