We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...

Teams werden in heutigen Organisationen zunehmend eingesetzt um Erfahrungen, Wissen und Fähigkeiten der Team-Mitglieder flexibel zum Vorteil der Organisation nutzen zu können. Zugleich hat sich internationale Erfahrung zu einem verbreiteten Bestandteil moderner Karrieren entwickelt, wodurch...

This paper uses data from the UEFA Champions League tournament between 2003 and 2013 to study the impact of diversity on group performance. We find that more diverse teams outperform less diverse ones. All else equal, a one-standard deviation increase in the average team's linguistic distance...

In this article, we analyze whether non-native speakers in the classroom affect the educational achievement and social integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity...