of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one … sufficient. Expert leaders are those with (1) inherent knowledge, acquired through technical expertise combined with high ability … performance through knowledge-based strategy, by acting as a standard bearer, by creating the right environment for core workers …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …