Birthplace diversity and team performance

Enzo Brox and Tommy Krieger

Labour Economics, 2022, vol. 79, issue C

Abstract: Using hand-collected and web-scraped data on 7208 matches and 3266 players from the highest division of German male football, this paper examines how birthplace diversity affects team performance. The results of two instrumental variable analyses suggest that birthplace diversity has a hump-shaped effect on team performance. To explain our result, we argue that nationally diverse teams have a wider range of skills and face greater communication barriers.

Keywords: Birthplace diversity; Globalization; Multinational working teams; Productivity; Soccer; Team composition; Team performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 F66 J01 J24 M14 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102288

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