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Nhl Data, Mikaela J. Dufur, Tom Leppard, Kevin Shafer, Jonathan Jarvis
Nhl Data, Mikaela J. Dufur, Tom Leppard, Kevin Shafer, Jonathan Jarvis
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These data include two data sets. The first, NHL Data.csv, contains information on professional North American hockey players in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2018-2019 season. The data include information on players' race, ethnicity, position, captaincy status, penalty minutes, and physical characteristics. The second data set, NHL Exec.csv, contains data on general managers and head coaches of NHL teams during the 2018-2019 season. The data include information on executives' ethnicity and position.
Increasing Workplace Diversity: Evidence From A Recruiting Experiment At A Fortune 500 Company, Jeffrey A. Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, Christina Rott, Olga B. Stoddard
Increasing Workplace Diversity: Evidence From A Recruiting Experiment At A Fortune 500 Company, Jeffrey A. Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, Christina Rott, Olga B. Stoddard
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While many firms have set ambitious goals to increase diversity in their ranks, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field experiment to test several hypotheses on effective means to attract minority candidates for top professional careers. By randomly varying the content in recruiting materials of a major financial services corporation with more than 10,000 employees, we find that signaling explicit interest in employee diversity more than doubles the interest in openings among racial minority candidates, as well as the likelihood that they apply and are selected. Impacts on gender …