the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge help explain the European advantage. We build a model of … technological progress in a pre-industrial economy that emphasizes the person-to-person transmission of tacit knowledge. The young … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …